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Originally Posted by tomsem
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.
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Agreed: your suggestions seem extremely sensible, and are the only real equivalent to the "how thick is the hunk of book that's left" which the dots poorly conveyed and the percentage only conveys if you already know whether this is a Kindle Single or War and Peace. (If you started reading it, you probably *do* already know, but with the dots you didn't have to look it up the way you do now!)