Thread: How big is that e-book anyway?
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Old 09-01-2009, 09:32 AM   #50
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Originally Posted by rcrh View Post
Actually, it's not so much the length of the book that I find absent in ebooks, it's the length of chapters. It's nice to put a book down at chapter breaks and I find it impossible to know if I have to fight off sleep for another minute or two or an hour when I'm readying an ebook. It's dead easy to flip ahead and eye-ball a chapter break with a paper book. It would be nice if ebooks had some sort of progress bar for chapters.
When I want to find out how many more pages are in the chapter, I bump out to the TOC and see where the next chapter starts. From there, just hit the Menu key and the Continue Reading button (this is the sequence on the 505, not sure about other readers). It takes maybe 5 to 10 seconds--a tiny bit longer than it would take to flip through the paper book to find the end of the chapter.
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