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Old 10-27-2023, 03:54 PM   #5
tomsem
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Originally Posted by BobD888 View Post
Thankyou for your reply tomsem. I am using the latest kindle app on iOS 17.0.3 on a new phone. I was reading a book that displayed location. I decided to checkout the "page number" option. It allowed me to make the change. Then I learned that I was not able to change my very old Kindle Fire to page numbers on the exact same book. Having the two devices keep track using different measures (page number and location) obviously makes no sense so I wanted to change the iPhone app back to location (what it was 5-10 minutes earlier) and the option to go back was not available. There are other ebooks that still display location on the phone app. So I guess once you change it, the change is permanent. Thanks again.
It looks like you just need to open a book without page data, toggle display of location, then after that, other books you open will also display location even if they have page data.

But books with page data will revert to page display very readily if you jump around with Go To, ToC, etc.

This trick does not work on (newer) Fire/Android Kindle app. It is either/or.

Personally I do not have issue with either display, and prefer the current implementation to the one that let you choose between them that was in effect in the past. Usually I am in time to end of chapter mode, or no progress display mode.
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