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Originally Posted by HarryT
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".
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On Kobo devices, when you are browsing between books, and when the device is switched off, progress is displayed as a percentage, in-keeping with your analogy. It is only when you are reading the book that is shows 'page 14 of 127' (although you also have the option to view percentage instead).
I think what makes this a bit frustrating on Kindle is that the page number display is halfway there; it's not that there is no page number at all. It's just that, without knowing how many pages are in the book, the page number is useless to me.
I had never thought about it before, but I would be interested to see the option to show the percentage to a couple of decimal points. That feature could really solve my main problems with percentage view: namely, that I don't know how much of the book I am reading with each page turn; with longer books I can turn the page ten times and still not move a percentage point. So yeah, pehaps I do "honestly care" hehe.