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Originally Posted by scottjl
lol. this is apple we're talking about.. style over substance ya know.
personally, i'd rather see a % instead of page numbers. has more meaning if i know i'm 50% done than on an arbitrary page number.
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Not me. Not having a total number of pages was one of the things about stanza that drove me crazy.
Plus with ibooks, you can infer a loose approximation of the % when viewing the progress bar that displays when you tap the screen.
I like page numbers better because:
1. I can get an idea of the 'size' of one book relative to another
2. Knowing that I am on page 10 of 100 has more meaning to me than 10%. I know that in 90 more pages I am done. Whereas with a %, I may have some idea of how long or how many page turns it took me to get to 10%, but I really don't have a real good handle on how much more of the book I have to get through - other than I have 90% left.
I could see where % might have more meaning if you are constantly changing font sizes or reading on different devices, as the page numbers will change, but the % should remain constant - this just isn't the case for me.
And even if I was reading on both the iphone and ipad, I'd still prefer the page numbers.