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Originally Posted by enarchay
Why are there so many damn locations, then? I've seen some books have thousands of locations - and I doubt the actual books have thousands of pages (in paperback or on the Kindle).
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Well your statement was about precision. If you don't compare well in bytes then you can think in pages. At my font choice a location is like 1/8 of a page. Therefore you can more precisely specify the location to the nearest 1/8 of a page.
However, there is a reason that pages are a bad measure. Think of it this way. You want to tell your friend how to find something on his/her reader. "Its on page 231 of the text in the first paragraph." Now the problem is that page 234 does not contain the same words on his text as on yours because you both select different fonts and font sizes. This means that your texts will contain different page numbers.
Locations are tied to the physical book location. It doesn't matter what the screen is set at. If you tell your fried to go to location 2310 then both of you will see the same text.
Therefore, locations are more precise for two reasons. 1) In typical font sizes they specify a place at a finer level of detail than pages. 2) They are not affected by changing fonts or font sizes.