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While I get that some folks are really tied to the number of screen turns and the deep-seeded familiarity of the ideas of 'turning pages', and nothing else will ever satisfy them, for everyone else, I really don't get what y'all don't get about locations. It doesn't matter if a location is one character long, 5 characters (which would be standard word count) 128, or 1024. It's some number out of some bigger number. Just because on the kindle it's a bigger number than you are used to seeing in a paperback, what difference does it it make? Why divide by or whatever? If you at location 122 of 21232 you're at the beginning. If you're at local 20223, you're near the end. Click one page and you'll get a sense for how much the location changes each time. Why is this difficult or counter intuitive?
And for those of you who are craving screen turn count, don't forget to demand that every ebook producer marks the end of the main text before the end matter in a standard way, as someone suggest earlier, because you'll all be so upset when you find your book really ends on "screen-page" 250 of 350 and you find that your whole sense of "where you are in the book and how many clicks until the end" was wrong the whole time.
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