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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Call it screenfuls, or whatever. Use "locations". Anything.
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Quite the reverse, eschwartz.
Please consult the word "page" in any good dictionary. The description nicely fits our modern-day electronic devices. Yes, flipping to a new screen
is turning a page in the electronic environment.
It is
you and Jon who should stop calling a "page" something that clearly is
not a page. I also detest Amazon software (again, too dumb, just like Apple software), but as you yourself indicated, eschwartz, Kindle is being honest here: it called its original scheme "locations". (It was just rather unfortunately chosen; regular folks hate dealing with 4-digit or even 5-digit "locations", and that's where the backlash came from.)
Now what you and Jon are arguing for are
also locations – just different ones compared to Kindle's locations. Also different from the completely unnecessary current scheme in Marvin. But
they are not pages.
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Originally Posted by eschwartz
As for me, my Kindle does "Time left to read", which IMHO trumps all other methods.  |
Absolutely not.
For you, perhaps, but for me, it would be an absurd metric. Any book I can think of consists of passages that are easier to read, and such that it takes more time to read and digest. So, any "time left to read" metric is, to me, completely arbitrary and therefore imprecise. If it serves your purposes, though, then good for you.
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Originally Posted by eschwartz
keep in mind that no one will actually change their opinion...
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Oh, I'm not that pessimistic. I fully believe in the ability of rational discussion to change people's minds.