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Old 03-12-2008, 04:38 PM   #80
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Originally Posted by tompe View Post
What I have noticed when reading books on my Cybook is that the thickness of the book or story was a factor that was more important to the experience then I thought before. You really use how much is left of the book (in absolute terms) to adjust your exectations and that influences the experince. Maybe if we will get a page number display on the Cybook I can learn to get this information.
I get that as well.. an anticipation of the end. I note that I don't get that nearly as much with LOTR, but that has all those appendices at the end.

Should pull out Tufte and see what he'd think. I think a progress bar would be more intuitive. While numbers are compact, they're also more abstract about something that (nominally) would be experienced in the concrete.
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