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Old 12-22-2015, 08:23 AM   #47
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Originally Posted by Katsunami View Post
Kindles have something like location, percentages, and page numbers, but they can't be used to compare books.
Sure they can. As long as you're comparing apples to apples. Two books with a similar number of locations are similar in "size." A book with more locations than another is "bigger." The comparisons still hold, even if the paradigms our brains are locked into don't allow us to instantly visualize how much bigger/smaller various books are (yet). But future humans won't have that problem.

Just like we have our own "page" paradigms, there's nothing stopping people from developing their own "average" location-count-per-book statistics. In fact, a locations-based comparison would give just as accurate a picture of the relative "size" of two books, as a comparison made based on a computed "page" count would (more so, actually, if one or more of the ebooks' page-count numbers is tied to a physical book's page-count--which is affected by font-size and margins and line-height and page dimensions). It's just that the scale of a location-based system isn't as intuitive to us as the one that has had a lifetime to become ingrained is. But when it boils down to the numbers, locations give us everything (regarding book-length comparisons) that pages do. If we let them.

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If one book is 300 'pages' and another is 400, the latter is 1/3rd longer.
If one book is 10000 locations and another is 7500, the former is 1/4th smaller.

EDIT: Don't get me wrong; I understand people not wanting to make adjustments (or not being willing to change their mindsets), but don't confuse "don't want to" with "can't."

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