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Old 04-14-2008, 03:40 PM   #67
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Originally Posted by msundman View Post
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.
So long as you give the total length also. Knowing that you have read 80% is raher useless if you do not know if the book is 30 paper pages or 1000 paper pages.
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