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I turn off all progress indicators when I eread. I don't want to know where I am in relation to the end of a book (or the end of the chapter for that matter). Knowing I'm close to the end makes me start forming assumptions that I otherwise wouldn't.
However... I'm perfectly willing to concede the fact that people whose wants/needs are different than my own (or whose wants/needs I can't even pretend to understand) are not "wrong" (not inherently anyway). Nor are they necessarily misinformed or unable to grasp the concept of a paradigm shift. Those people are simply "not me." And they're free to continue being "not me" (with no interference from me trying to convince them that they'd be better off if they were, in fact, me).
I may not have always been this way, and it still may occasionally take a post or two for me to remember that being "not me" is an inherent right of ... everybody, but I try.
So as one who has no need of any progress indicators whatsoever, I hereby grant others the authority to desire any such indicators that would make them happy.
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