[readingaloud]

One Kindle feature that's slowly driving me up the wall is the way that the reader pops up a nag asking you to review a book as soon as you get to the end of the main text.

Possibly some people like to be reminded to donate some time and effort to create reviews for poor little Amazon. But some of us really hate to have our technology nagging us to do things for the benefit of the company that makes the device.

This little jolt of annoyance hits me just when I've finished a book, and might thus be in the mood to buy another one. I don't know how others feel, but by reminding me how little Amazon respects me at this critical moment, they've lost at least a few sales.

Perhaps those of us who dislike nagging so much that we've paid extra not to be subjected to ads could be offered the additional boon of turning off the review nag.

The fact that the review nag hits you at the end of the main text rather than the real end of the book is particularly annoying. I suppose that people often would not see the nag if it came at the very end of the book--some people, including me, tend to skip the end matter. Amazon knows where in the file the main text ends.

This shows that Amazon could, if it wanted to, allow me to see my reading progress against the main text, not just the book as a whole. Another pet peeve of mine is reaching the end of a book when the progress indicator tells me that I'm something like 72% of the way through it.

Amazon is willing to mark the end of the book for the purposes of nagging me, but not for the purpose of letting me know how much of the book I really have left. That's appalling.