[tomsem]

KT does not display page numbers all of the time like K3. You have to tap at the top of the screen to reveal menu/search/options. Then you will see page numbers at the bottom of the screen (if the book has them defined). Also when you bring up the Go To dialog, it will often show you a navigable table of contents. When there are page numbers, each chapter or section listed in this TOC list will show the page number each begins on.

It seems that the UX people at Amazon like a 'minimalist' design. So KT also does not have the progress bar with the little marks mapping out the distribution of chapter boundaries and bookmarks. Probably they have gotten a lot of support calls over the years from K1/K2/K3 owners wondering why some books have page numbers shown and some don't. Why do some have the little tic marks and why some don't. All books have locations and % complete, so only those elements are shown all of the time. Out of sight, out of mind. I like this for the most part.

However, one of the questions I'm constantly asking myself is "how much longer does this chapter go on?" and I like to have that computed for me and ready to display at a single touch. As it is I sometimes use swipe up gesture to jump to the beginning of the next chapter, while noting the change in Location and guesstimating how long it will take to finish reading the chapter. Then jump Back and continue reading. But this seems a little convoluted.

For example, they could show chapter reading progress when you bring up Menu/Options. "x screens to go in chapter". This is a little problematic, however, as not all ebooks have markup that properly defines chapter boundaries, even if there seem to be obvious chapter headings and so forth. Without that markup, there are only heuristics to fall back on, which is to say 'a best guess' and that probably is not good enough in practice. And books vary greatly in terms of the chapter length, there can be 'breaks' within each chapter that represent a shift in scene, so it is hard to come up with an approach that works well with every book. Any 'solution' will need to include better HTML coding standards as well and tools that reinforce these.

So nothing is perfect, but Kindle Touch is the best Kindle to date as far as I'm concerned.