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Originally Posted by delphidb96
Hunh?!? Clearly we have discovered your 'true identity'! You, my good sir, are a literary critic for the New York Times!
I think I can speak for many readers here. No, I do NOT determine how to 'appreciate' or 'interpret' a given book based upon its length. I don't go into a store and pick up two new books by a given author and say to myself, "Hey. Book #1 is only 173 pages long so I'll have to interpret, process, understand and enjoy it differently than Book #2 which is 327 pages long!"
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Derek,
I actually read a pbook that was very popular (Lonesome Dove) that had it been even 2 or 3 times longer, I would have quit reading long before I did. Up until the last chapter, I keep thinking - "This book has potential. Maybe it really get somewhere." For me, it never did. It just stopped. Had it been longer I would not have read past the "original" first 25%.
Of course this example didn't require actual page numbers. I would have been just as happy with a percent number.
Where numbers are needed with the lack of search capability is, as some have pointed out, when you lose your place and must search for it. Yes you can get "close" (and I leave the definition of "close" totally open) with the already included visual scale. However without numbers "close" has larger margins of error.
Besides, I like numbers & .PRC on my Palm TX has both a visual scale & numbers so it shouldn't be too hard to implement on the Cybook.