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Old 01-31-2014, 12:52 AM   #9
Enchant
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Originally Posted by cybmole View Post
anyway there's no way to NOT know how much is left with a paper book, so why bother to code for it in ebook firmware

PS the original kindles did not do page numbers - Amazon caved in after 1000s of complaints & fixed that, but you could probably sill find an old model on ebay
Well, ebooks don't have to just emulate paper books. I would prefer pages in paper books as well to not have numbers on them. It's just a convention that allows for citing which only really happens in academia. I never use the page numbers for anything when I read. I'd like a more beautiful, simpler page -- no quantities, just the pretty prose.

As for the old model kindle -- didn't they have a percentage bar instead? Do you know if it was possible to turn that off? Thanks
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