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Originally Posted by Braid
I did not mean to 'argue' that it is the best way. I stated that it is the best way. This was not to try to persuade anyone to see things the way I see them. Rather, it was to communicate my perception of this way of displaying progress: it is the obvious best way. I am sorry if you felt I was overly making bold claims/arguments. Sometimes I like or dislike a feature because of some particularity or idiosyncrasy in how I read ebooks... other times I perceive a certain way of doing things as being the obvious easiest/simplest/most intuitive solution, and I perceive many others to share my opinion. This is not an extraneous detail to me: if I feel that a feature should obviously be this or that way, it affects how I enjoy using the device. Therefore, I feel that it can be relevant on a forum like this to share with others not only my unique preferences, but also my perception of features of e-readers.
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I have to say that I completely disagree.
When you look at a bookmark in a physical book, you gauge your progress through the book in percentage terms: you think "that bookmark is about three quarters of the way through the book". You don't think "that bookmark looks as if it's on page 257 out of 343". A percentage is, to my mind, a more "natural" method of gauging progress.