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Originally Posted by knc1
Ah, so, your actual question appears. 
Short answer: Yes
Longer answer: So what?
Long answer:
I don't think the progress percent has a significantly stable relationship between its value and the current text position from Kindle instance to Kindle instance.
An added source of uncertainty -
Our e-reader add-ins support a very wide range of e-book formats.
I am not sure that even the formats where "byte counting" is used will be repeatable enough. |
I don't know what effects a book being DRM'd might have (@NiLuJe), and yeah certainly there are a bunch of issues but I haven't seen any so far that are major obstacles. If one can analyze the text to try to auto-pick music based on it, certainly one could analyze the text to sort of align one ebook (that the map was made from) onto another, even if one has chapter 1 starting at loc 200 and the other at loc 50. Unless an ebook is severely screwed up (i.e. a PDF with spaces between every character) any two different copies of one book will have the same sentences, yeah?
My actual question was also at the end of my first post by the way
edit: and "make a thematic playlist and change the track when appropriate" is far too much work to be realistic, imo; no one's gonna stop reading when they get to an action sequence or the setting changes to pick a new song. I do have great success listening to music while reading but I imagine this would be a whole new experience & be extremely nice to use if done well