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Originally Posted by haydnfan
I think that I would like locations more if they were not defined in terms of file size and were also a larger unit. A unit that is 300 words would be nice. It's roughly the size of a page and takes the average reader one minute to read.
I've seen a few posts here saying that defining a page as a screen is somehow bad because it depends on font size. To me that's an illogical, silly thing to say. I have two copies of Dune on my shelf and they each have different page counts due to having different sized font. Because in the print world page count depends on font sizes. I don't see why that can't be that way in the digital world.
The pages = screens seen on Kobo devices is my preferred unit. It's not defined in terms of some arbitrary reference like ADE page #s or kindle location #s. It's not defined in terms of some specific print edition that you'll never look at like kindle page numbers.
And let's face it, you each have one preferred font size. Once you set and forget it you can grow an intuition for how long a screen takes to read.
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Actually, I don't have "one preferred font size". It all depends on how tired my eyes are, and whether or not I'm wearing my glasses. (I don't wear my glasses to read in bed) I go up and down between 3 different font sizes throughout the day, usually...sometimes 4 if it's a really bad day. If page number was defined as a "screen", then the number of pages would keep changing throughout the day, and drive me crazy.
Shari