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Originally Posted by Quoth
I find the % is best. Pages are meaningless except on paper, and there % would be handy. The paper books don't list how far away the end of the chapter is.
Also chapters can be one paragraph or 100 pages. They can vary in a book or be similar length.
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While it is true that page numbers will vary according to each individual reader’s layout and font preferences, I believe page numbers are more useful, or at least more intuitive, for gauging the amount of text left in a chapter or in a book. With percentages I often just end up mentally calculating the number of pages per percent point; pages are just a more natural figure to work with, to me anyway, and I’d argue to the majority of people who grew up with physical books.
Regardless of which representation is “best”, what’s annoying is that there really isn’t any valid reason for this option not to be present on Kindles. Computing the number of pages left for a given layout and font is trivial; it might have been considered computationally intensive a decade ago but it’s certainly no longer the case, as evidenced by the fact that KOReader has no problem doing this on the same hardware.