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Old 05-02-2016, 11:15 PM   #20
tomsem
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Originally Posted by NullNix View Post
I hope they keep the percentage counter too. I find that much more useful! (I know this makes me a heretic and lower than the lowest beast.)
That makes two of us. Is that enough heretics to start a religion?

Still, % is also not great, I'm no heretic about that opinion. I assume (having checked a few of my books) it is computed something very much like this:
(currentLocation/totalLocations)*100, rounded to nearest whole number
But to make sense of the % you would also need to know total number of locations (not to mention knowing what a location is), which is what the dots attempted to convey, but fail to do so (because it is not a linear scale, and seems to be a 'dynamic' scale at that, seems to depend on the biggest book you happen to have on the device). Moreover, the dots don't work so well on Grid View, because they must obscure some significant portion of the precious cover images, even as the dot scale gets even cruder.

So I would propose displaying the 'missing piece of data' by mapping Reading Progress Preference to something like the following (with List View):

"Book A: 74%, 72 pages remaining" (if RPP=Page in book)
-or-
"Book A: 74%, 45m remaining" (if RPP=Time left in chapter or in book)
-or-
"Book A: 74% of 3667 locations" (if RPP=Location in book)
-or-
"Book A: 74%" (if RPP=None)

For both List and Grid view, have the '⋮' button that brings up the book options display this same reading progress text in the heading under Title/Author.

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