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Originally Posted by HarryT
Both scrolling and immersive reading would have a devastating effect on battery life: remember that the number of screen updates is one of the most significant uses of power on an eInk device. "Time remaining" works absolutely fine for me, and is far more useful than a nebulous "pages remaining"; the connection between pages and number of page turns is ill-defined.
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I would be fine with an implementation of immersion reading that simply kept the page synced with the audiobook, i.e. no realtime text highlighting whatsoever. This would not have ‘devastating effect on battery life’, unless you consider playing an audiobook (or using VoiceView) in itself detrimental to time-between-charges (I would be interested in some careful benchmarks in an attempt to quantify how detrimental it is - I suspect it is not as detrimental as it was when there were physical speakers or headset/speakers plugged in to audio port/dongle).
I don’t find time-remaining very consistent from one book to the next and it does not seem to be very self-correcting. So I leave it off, as it is too distracting for me. When I get antsy about seeing how far it is to the next chapter I’ll engage Page View, peak at Go To Contents, etc. But ideally I am more focused and don’t need constant feedback.
What I’d like is to be able to turn off progress display altogether, but be able to see progress display when tapping to reveal reading options, or when engaging Page View (which Kindle for iOS does). Unfortunately Kindle interprets this setting as “do not show me progress, ever” and that is too minimalistic for me.