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Originally Posted by tompe
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.
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I hear what you're saying, tompe, I do exactly the same thing with a paper book. I think that because my PRS500 had the page numbers already there when they launched (in "# of #" format), I pretty quickly adjusted to using them rather than the physical remainder of the pages to make that judgment. I find myself checking the page numbers to see how much is left pretty frequently, especially in climactic passages.
For me, the dwindling size of the remaining pages is something of a distraction in a paper book, since I have to constantly adjust my grip. I'm currently reading the first of the
Horatio Hornblower books (the first in the
time line, not the publication order) in paper, as they're not e-vailable, and I'm also finding the reading from both faces (especially lying down), and the "pages sticking together" thing to be very jarring after ~19 months almost exclusively on the PRS500. These were a few of the things I always looked forward to e-reading to solve, but I realize that they're going to be less bothersome, or even advantageous to other folks.
