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Originally Posted by tompe
i think you are missing the main use of page number. It is to know how long the things is you are reading and knowing how much you have left to read. Reading a short story in a collection it is impossible to know how long the short story is which for me influence the experience very negatively.
Reading in a browser is as bad.
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Both text and MobiPocket modes display a progress bar at the bottom that conveys 2 attributes:
- the current page position in the overall text is marked by the solid bar
- the total content length is marked by the empty rectangle which is the full display width
A pBook similarly conveys the current position by a page number and the total length by the final page's number. The *ONLY* difference are units. The progress bar unit is a pixel that represents a certain number of lines of text as opposed to pages. The difference for me is minor.
Now, I select ""Go To..." then " "Page..." and I get the total number of pages, in my case I have 1339. So now I know the empty rectangle represents 1339 pages and my progress bas is around 40% mark, so about page 535.
Well that is good enough for me. I get all the information I could possibly want.
Besides, when I am looking at the page number or progress indicator too much then I know I should discard the book as I don't really like it.