Thread: How to read long, nonfiction books?
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Old 02-16-2022, 05:39 PM   #26
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Originally Posted by Deskisamess View Post
I see no difference between seeing the percentage read or seeing the book mark sticking out of the top of the book and visualizing that I'm about 30% or 70% through the book.
You may not see it, maybe because of the particular books you read, or maybe you don't notice. But for some ebooks the difference can be significant for at least two reasons on kindles.

I don't know what's up on the book where every footnote is on it's own page. My sympathies to Bembo.

My experience is with amazon books whose page numbers match a paper book edition. amazon's % finished is calculated based on the non-image bytes form the beginning, including all HTML formatting. Some books have extensive notes, a bibliography, and even an extensive index at the end. These are all heavily formatted and usually in a smaller font. This has a double whammy efect of putting more content bytes and much more formatting bytes per "page" at the end of the book. So those sections at the end are virtually thicker and represent a hefty "%" of the book as calculated by amazon.
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