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Old 05-16-2009, 01:02 PM   #13
gerraldo
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Location: Vienna/Austria
Device: CyBook Gen 3, Palm Tungsten T3
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Originally Posted by tompe View Post
This is not a correct description of the opinions. The main use for many people of page number is to get the correct sense of progress. For that it does not matter that the pagination changes.

For me it was a total surprise how much I am missing this sense of progress. Before I started to use the Cybook I thought page number (and total number of pages) was not so useful. This is the most important reason for me tending to read a lot of paper books nowadays.
But you do have noticed the bar at the foot of the page... (sorry, couldn't resist)

Maybe it's just me, but to see if I have approx. 10%, a third, more then half or some 80-90% etc. is enough to keep me satisfied.

Don't get me wrong, I don't know why this should be so hard to implement (even the MobiReader on my Nokia N958GB has it since ages) and I know the "go to page..." feature makes no sense without page numbers, but personally I don't really need them.

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