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Originally Posted by europas_ice
As a Sony user, I can attest to the fact that page numbers are totally useless. They only do two things for me. (1) I do the division in my head (page x of y) to figure out what percent I am through the book. Looks like the kindle (2, at least) would do that for me. And (2) the only other thing I use page numbers for is to get an idea of how long the book is. But I change font size depending how much light I have to read by, and how tired I am, so that number isn't terribly meaningful. I think Kindle's system is probably better.
Does the Kindle 1 use this "locator" thing? And does anyone know if the locator value has any meaning? Is it a string of random numbers/letters, or do they increase sequentially as you move through he book?
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I don't agree; I use the page number on my Sony to tell how long it will take for me to finish a book. I read in small font 99% of the time, If I'm reading a book in small font and it takes me 30 seconds to read a page and I'm on page 100 of the book, I can tell you from the minute how long it will take to read the remaining 187 pages. For example, last night I was reading in bed and my husband wanted to know how long will I read and I told him I have 27 pages left, I knew that because I could see I was on page 323 of 350.
