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Originally Posted by Tarana
I was puzzled by your comment until I read that you had some tablets. Both my Kindles and my Nook all indicate what percentage of a book you have read. Of course, if they include a chapter or two of the next book, it's just an estimate of where you end. My Nook HD gives an indicator sometimes, sometimes not. It may be a setting that I haven't found yet though.
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Yes, I can see what the percentage is on my Kindle (where I do 95+% of my reading.) BUT, it just isn't the same somehow. Don't get me wrong, I love reading on an eInk device (Original Paperwhite, in this case.) But I often don't have an intuitive feel for where I am in the book. I'm not saying I can't tell -- just turn on the percentage at the bottom. But if you read what I said, there's no _tactile_ feel for size or where I am. In many cases, I don't know how many "pages" there are in a book if I downloaded it directly to the Kindle. If it passed through Calibre, I undoubtedly used the count pages plugin, so I might have noticed that what I somehow expected to be a 200-250 page book was, in fact, a 411 page book. But if it went directly to the Kindle (as this book did), I likely won't notice until I realize that when it _feels_ like I should be at 85% of the book, based on how the plot is going and how long I've been reading, I'm only at 50%, which means we have at least one (and in this case two or three) major plot twists that reset the action.
In any case, I definitely liked this first Jo Nesbo book, and will be getting more. But I can tell that I'm going to want to read them in order, so something is going to have to give with the price of the second one, cause I am NOT going to spend $15 on it. (Current Canadian price - it's not available in the US yet.)