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Originally Posted by msundman
Why, oh, why would you use page numbers on a device that has variable-sized pages? That's insane! It means that either the page number for some particular point in the text changes as you adjust the font, line height, margins, layout, ..., or you have page numbers that in no way correspond to the actual pages. Please come to your senses and use percentage-based navigation instead, because it actually works consistently and thus isn't confusing.
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So what? If you have page numbers can't you do the math? If you know you want to go to 50% of the book, and the font size you are at is 500 reader pages, then, lets see um, page 250 would be right. If your font size makes this same content 600 pages, then (give me time here), page 300 would be 50% in.
What you CAN get from page numbers you can't get from percentage. I have the Sony and NEVER once have I looked at the page number where it said for example, Page 123 of 684 and said to myself... damn I wish I knew what percentage of the book that was. It is so INSANE to have these page numbers. However, many times I have thought, oh damn I really should get to bed... wait I'm at page 652 of 678... I'm gonna finish this sucker. But, if it said, 96% read I have no idea if that mean there are 3 pages left or 100.
Stealing the term from John Stossel, "Give me a break...!"
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