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Old 02-18-2019, 08:38 AM   #59
JSWolf
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
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.
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Page x of y is definitely superior to percent. Percent doesn't give an indication of how long the book is. To get an equivalent, you would need x% of y pages.


IMO, YMMV.
I do agree that % is useless if you cannot see how long the book is. Using the pBooks analogy, when you look where your bookmark is, you also see the size of the book and can then estimate how far along you are and how much left you have. With an eBook, you don't see how large the book is so you don't know what the % means in terms of how much you've read and how much you've left. The problem with Kindles is that page numbers are meaningless because they can be set to just about anything. With Calibre, I can set any page number and Calibre will make a page number file to make that work. Amazon does the same thing with page number to fit some version pBook.

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