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Originally Posted by HarryT
Unfortunately that's completely useless for referring to a point in the book. Your page 125 is almost certainly not going to be the same as somebody else's page 125. Why do you actually care how many screens you've gone through?
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Those are two distinct issues though imo, whilst locations could work for both sides I don't think it's the ideal solution.
Percentage bars are fine for many to see general progress, locations are fine for others that want to reference specific sections, but having an extra option to show how many screens are left would be great imo.
I don't find it intuitive to gauge how far I've to go with locations, I tend to use the progress bar for a rough indication, however when I near the end of a book I'd really like to know I'm only X screens from the end as I'll then tend to just spend another 10 minutes to finish off the book that night. When I see I've 30,560 locations to go, I don't have a clue how long that's going to take me to read. When I see I've 10 screens left I know close enough how much I've to read time wise. When I see 99% on the progress bar, I again don't really know, because I often don't remember how many pages it took to cause it to increment by 1% nor how far into that 99% I may have been when I stopped the night before. Screen numbers would solve that.
The "screens" concept could be taken further too, when initially working out how many screens there will be, it'd be possible to note the length of each chapter so instead of seeing X / X screens as book total you could see X screens to end of chapter. Again an optional feature due to the extra processing required on opening a book or making a font size change.
In terms of pages, I think that only makes sense if it's in reference to a physical edition which is afaik something amazon has already implemented for supporting books.
All that said, so long as the progress bar is available with tick marks for each chapter location, I'm happy enough. Screen numbers are by no means a vital issue for me, they'd just be nice imo.