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Originally Posted by Hitch
I understand the progress thing. Makes perfect sense to me. Or, X minutes remaining in this book. What I don't get is the page numbers thing, versus Locations, or the "page numbers" created, on the fly, by other devices, that are just as fake as Location numbers. That's kind of my question. Is it because they are called "pages?"
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To me, the difference is ADE pages are somewhat close to paperback novel size. So if I see a book is 150 ADE pages, I know that will maybe take me a little over an hour to read and that it is the length of an older novel or a modern novella. I've also compared the page counts of some books which I have in both ebook and paper book form and the ADE page count is reasonably similar.
How about Kindle locations? For me, locations are too fine grained. It's too hard to reason about 5 or 6 digit numbers at a quick glance. I find I have to stop and think about it, and I don't have a lifetime of reading habit to help me. What I end up doing when I read on a Kindle is divide location by 20 for a rough conversion to a "page". 20 isn't the best conversion factor, but it's the easiest one to do and is close enough for me.
Edit: When I look through my library to decide what to read next, the length of the book is one of the factors, depending on my mood. I might not want to start a super long novel, or I might find a short book unsatisfying depending on what I want at the time. Pages give me an easy way to decide that. File size isn't useful because of how much variation images might add. And as I said earlier, I don't have a good gut feel for how long a book is in locations.