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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
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.  |
Vaporpunk head hurt bad.
Heh, just kidding and thanks for taking the time to explain this.
I'm still relatively new to the world of ereaders. I'm just not sure that it would be that complicated.
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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?
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The feedback I'm looking for would be
pages left until the end of the chapter. Right now I'm reading "The Magic of Recluse" on my kindle. When I click on the menu button, I get - "Page 455 of 501 * Location 8330 of 9157". So the Kindle tracks what page I'm on already, but that depends on the formatting of the book, right, because not all books have the page numbers? The Kindle also seems to be "aware" where the next chapter is because as Nyssa points out, clicking the right arrow brings you to the start of the next chapter. So its just a matter of combining the two, correct?
It would be nice if the information would be available with one click on the menu button. Using the above example -
Page 455 of 501 * Location 8330 of 9157 *
X
where X is the # of pages until end of chapter.
This would all depend on the ebook format, if it has pages or not and chapter markers, etc...but most of the books I've purchased direct from Amazon do.
Then again, I have no idea how difficult all this would be to implement. If it is, is there enough demand to justify the effort? Most people don't seem to mind, its just a pet peeve of mine.
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Originally Posted by Nyssa
You can do that with a Kindle 3, but I do not know if it can be done with a 4. On the Kindle 3, if the book has chapter markers, you can click the right arrow in the square/select button and it will take you to the beginning of the next chapter. Click Menu and see what page its on, then click back and you're back to where you were reading.
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Thanks, karma for taking the time to help. I posted my "
shortcut" for this a while ago in the Kindle section of MR and its pretty much as you explained above. I am however, an exceptionally lazy individual and want it all with just one click.