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Originally Posted by VaporPunk
I like to try and finish at the end of a chapter, if at all possible. When I'm nodding off with a paper book, I can easily flip ahead and see how long it is till the end of the chapter. I would kind of like a quick function on my kindle that would do the same.
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Ah, I see. That would have never occurred to me; I'm perfectly willing to accept the more random (not to mention more frequently occurring) stopping points of "Where I Fell Asleep" most times—paper OR pixels.
You'll probably get your wish someday. But right now, I imagine the issue is related to the fact there's really no "this is
exactly what a new chapter is" (programmatically speaking) in all of the various formats. Self-awareness of their own individual, internal structures might be a ways off.
Out of curiosity, what kind of feedback would you be looking for: "pages" left? "screens" left at the current font size? It seems to me that whatever you get (and I can't ever see it being anything but a number of some kind) is going to be fairly esoteric, no? Whereas with physical books, you get that very tactile sense of the physical "thickness" of the content left to get through. Which you can instinctively translate to "time left to read," with no real numbers/math involved.
So unless you already know the number of "screens" or "pages" you can read per minute/hour/whatever (and are willing to do math as you're contemplating nodding off), I guess I can't really see the usefulness of an "
X relative units of Y left until the end of the unit Z" number. Unless it's purely for comfort/peace of mind.
Sorry for geeking out—and I certainly don't mean to imply yours is an unworthy request by any means—but it's interesting to me. I'm just not sure the "I've got this much left" (holds thumb and forefinger up) feature of physical books is going to be able to be translated (usefully) to the digital medium—at least not until many, many spatial paradigms evolve first.
Sorry again... and back to the thread at hand.
