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Originally Posted by Solitaire1
The advantage of using a percentage figure is that it is easily understood, and allows you to access the same point on the ebook between various ereader. It can also be calculated independent of the specific ebook format.
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Only as long as it is approximate. How do you measure the "length" of the book? Do you count all the markup? Then different formats have different lengths, and the same book in the same format will have different length depending on how it's coded. Do you count only "visible" text? That's not easy to do, at least not without decoding and rendering the whole book (even if it's only a "dummy" rendering).