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Old 05-02-2025, 12:06 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by BionicGecko View Post


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.
It was never a computational issue. I agree that choice is good. There is no good reason that it's not an option. Instead they waste effort on stupid changes.
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