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Old 04-27-2011, 02:12 PM   #11
Shelleyleo
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Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Device: Astak EZReader, Sony PRS-350
I hadn't even noticed, but yes (I'd learned to kind of tune those numbers out for the most part on my old reader, so I hadn't even realized they weren't there on the 350!) The page number on the bar along the bottom of the screen will say either a single page number of total pagecount or will say a range of numbers of the total (IE: "172 of 222" or "172-173 of 222") but it is a ton better than my old reader which (once upgraded to ADE instead of an alternate ePub parser) only showed the ADE page number on the right margin and no total pagecount (unless you told it to jump to the end of the book so you could figure out what it thought the pagecount was and try to keep that in mind as you read if you cared to know how close to the end you were at a given time) - so I was thrilled to pieces to get a total pagecount shown all the time while I'm reading my ePubs I'd completely neglected in my joy to notice the ADe pgae numbers in the margin were gone *dances a jig* yay! Sure, they were gone and I didn't notice, but I can be happy about it now!

And regarding the link highlighting - it would be aggravating if you wanted links to be entirely "you have to know it's there" to find em (which isn't generally the case in my experience) but they aren't horribly in your face about it either, I hardly notice my navigation links at the heading of chapters anymore unless I need to use them, the grey isn't so jarring as I think a reversed color scheme on a highlighted link would be (though I know without a doubt I'd get used to that in a hurry if it were my reader's standard display option).

Anyway, if you're curious about anything else and how it displays on the 350 just let me know and I'll be happy to see what I can do to get an image of it, but so far I'm very happy about my 350 purchase. I do keep a stylus with me in addition to the one that came with the 350 just because I have seen the numerous "my stylus broke" posts and I'd rather just use one of the bazillion stylus(es? stylii?) I have kicking around when I am reading at home and just use the onboard stored one when really needed - though my finger as a stylus works generally as well for anything but very fine detail in highlighting down to an exact letter (so most of my highlights with my finger have an extra leading or trailing character or space when I make a note - meh who cares).
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