Thread: Firmware Update Kindle adds Page Numbers (and more)
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Old 02-21-2011, 07:00 AM   #231
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Originally Posted by Piper_ View Post
Aside from the numbers that require too much calculation and the crazy "1357-64" display of range, the worst is related to the fact that no one can predict or figure how many locations they are looking at. You can have one full screen of text that holds 50 locations, and the next full screen holds 10 locations.
Hmmm, I've never noticed that much variation. Usually it's more like 6-8, depending on how much white space is on the screen.

I'm not crazy about locations myself, but it does generally let me know with some basic math that I can do in my head easily how many page clicks I have until the end of the book.

Which actual book pages doesn't accomplish. And percentage by itself is just completely worthless (and redundant, you can see that by the bar). Why they just can't tell you how many clicks is beyond me. Seems like it would be easy to calculate, and more readily useful.
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