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Originally Posted by rixte
I just like to know how much of a book is left. Sometimes for practical reasons (should I push through to the end before bed or just finish it in the morning? ) but mostly just because I like to KNOW - to start my mental wrap up of the characters/story before I leave them. If it ends unexpectedly, it's a bit of a jolt, even if the story itself wrapped up, because I don't always get closure ... I prepared for a 'more' that didn't come.
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Books can finish "early" for all sorts of reasons. In quite a few of the SF books that Baen publish, for example, the last 10-15% of the book is a lengthy list of all the names, places, technologies, animals, plants, weapons, etc, that appear in the book. In other books (especially non-fiction) there'll be a long index at the end.