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Originally Posted by ratinox
But you do have context: you know how many apples and oranges you purchased. If you bought six apples and ate 50% of them then you know you ate three apples.
This works exactly the same with an ebook. If you know a book is 250,000 characters and you've read 15% of the book then you know you've read about 37,500 characters. These are unwieldly numbers so publishers usually count words.
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My point exactly. I know how many apples and oranges I purchased. Nobody else does. When I open an ebook and see only a percentage on the screen, I have no other information for my mental estimates. The publisher knows how many characters are in the book, but I do not, unless I go somewhere else to look it up and then either write it down or remember it. Why should I do that if the information can be displayed right there in the same place that percentage or page number or character count is displayed?