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Old 09-29-2009, 03:49 PM   #17
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Originally Posted by zerospinboson View Post
Well, if I ignore the fact that it's pretty useless for academic work, I don't really mind thinking in terms of what percentage of the book I've finished. It sounds a bit off, perhaps (I'm 40% through is something you'd sooner say of something you hate or dislike than something you like), but connotations can change easy as apple pie anyway.
I think that 100 pages of 1000 pages says more directly than 10% of 1000 pages. Especially when you know how long time it takes to read one page. So I very much prefer not to use percentage.
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