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Originally Posted by barryem
I have to agree that the thickness of the remaining part of the book is a first rate progress indicator but a percentage read is as good an indicator and maybe better. Even if the thickness is more intuitive, would you really want your kindle to get thinner and the cover to get thicker as you read? 
I read paperbacks all my life. Now I read on a Kindle and sometimes on my phone. Both are better in a lot of ways than the paperbacks. I'd miss them if I had to go back to paper.
Ereaders are the third great technical advance in reading. The first was the move to paper books from scrolls. The second was the printing press. And now there's the ereader.
Oh wait! I left out what might be the most important advance: the inserting of spaces to separate words. If I recall that happened about the 10 century.
Barry |
I think the first great advance was in the setting down of books on clay tablets myself. Though they probably were a bit heavy to carry at least the words didn't change from one person to the next.
And now we are back to reading on tablets again, though of a bit lighter sort. lol.