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Originally Posted by Zero9
I totally understand how you could feel way that, even though I'm completely different. I'm the kind of person who pages ahead (trying to avoid reading any words that would spoil what's coming up) just because I wonder how many pages are left before the end of a CHAPTER. Now that's something I'd like to be able to turn on in an e-book reader: a CHAPTER progress meter.
I expect I'm practically alone on this.  |
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Originally Posted by hakim
Same here. Chapter progress bar could be a really neat feature 
Talking about whole book size, maybe there could be some simple software which could
show approximate size of the book by opening an ebook? 3D visual representation. |
FBReader has optional Chapter marks in it's progress bar -- little vertical lines that tell you where the breaks are.
Pretty cool, but I don't use them; regular progress bar is enough for me.
As for indicating progress within a book that you've closed -- perhaps the icon for the book (assuming your reader has one) could function like a battery meter, with bars for each chapter, or a standard 10 bars to indicate percentage or somesuch.
To indicate size, (based on word-count, not file-size so that images don't influence the analysis) perhaps the reader could display larger or smaller icons. Word-count could be added to the metadata so that we don't require too much processing from the hardware reader.
Two cents,
m a r
ps: re-reading, I see that you are discussing a progress bar within a chapter for that chapter itself. Okay idea. Two progress bars, though?