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Originally Posted by Deskisamess
When I had a Kobo, I paid no attention to the stats. I'm not a number cruncher, but can see why some people are.
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I'm relatively new to the Kobo world (and I've only been using an e-reader since early 2020, but more extensively in the past few months). It may just be that I need time to get used to it. I moved a far distance and couldn't take any books with me, so most of my recent reads have been on the Kobo -- maybe that is why it's become so easy to get obsessed with the numbers.
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Originally Posted by j.p.s
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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Well I finally finished that text, so it's all good! I do loathe when authors get too handy with footnotes, though. I mean, I love a good footnote, but you really don't need to explain every single reference like I'm coming out of Plato's cave...
Ah, that explains a lot. I've noticed at least on my Kobo (can't remember if my Kindle PW3 was the same) that the % it marks me at is not always the % I'm at, if I take the "x of y" page numbers. Often times it would say I'm at 50% but by the page numbers it would really be like 55%. I didn't realize it weighed formatted sections differently.