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View Poll Results: How important are page numbers in Kindle Books?
Very important - I tend to avoid those books and forget the author 16 8.56%
Nice to have - I use them if they are there 57 30.48%
Not important at all - get over yourself. 114 60.96%
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Old 02-23-2017, 04:09 AM   #241
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Page numbers are not important for me when reading an ebook. It's fine to have the info of percentage read. That's enough I think.
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Old 02-24-2017, 08:31 AM   #242
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I have seen some that say page 30 of 300. It is the ones that just say 20 that is not so useful. 20 of how many?
For most of the ebooks that I've read with page numbers, you can go to the end to see how many there are in total - just like with a paperback or hardcover.
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Old 02-24-2017, 11:58 PM   #243
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For most of the ebooks that I've read with page numbers, you can go to the end to see how many there are in total - just like with a paperback or hardcover.
Exactly. This. ^. After all, a print book doesn't tell you X of Y unless you do the same thing. Flip to the back, see how many pages there are, etc.

I understand the progress thing. Makes perfect sense to me. Or, X minutes remaining in this book. What I don't get is the page numbers thing, versus Locations, or the "page numbers" created, on the fly, by other devices, that are just as fake as Location numbers. That's kind of my question. Is it because they are called "pages?"

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Old 02-25-2017, 02:54 PM   #244
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Since I read kindle books in the dark with minimal light, I can't see page numbers anyway. I liked the dots which showed you your progress, but I guess that is too old school.
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Old 02-25-2017, 03:02 PM   #245
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Since I read kindle books in the dark with minimal light, I can't see page numbers anyway. I liked the dots which showed you your progress, but I guess that is too old school.
What makes a page number different than any other characters you see on the page?
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Old 02-25-2017, 05:11 PM   #246
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What makes a page number different than any other characters you see on the page?
My guess is that that those 2 sentences were supposed to be 2 different thoughts not relating to each other.
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Old 02-25-2017, 08:03 PM   #247
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My guess is that that those 2 sentences were supposed to be 2 different thoughts not relating to each other.
It's the first sentence I don't understand. If it's too dark to read page numbers, how do you read the rest of the book?
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Old 02-26-2017, 12:52 PM   #248
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Since I read kindle books in the dark with minimal light, I can't see page numbers anyway. I liked the dots which showed you your progress, but I guess that is too old school.
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What makes a page number different than any other characters you see on the page?
It's much smaller!

Although I can't speak for Sydney's Mom, I find that as I've gotten older I have trouble reading the page number/location/time left to read/etc at the bottom of the page in low light. I also have to adjust my font levels up a size when reading at night. I suppose if I ceded to the inevitable and started wearing reading glasses I wouldn't have any trouble seeing those tiny numbers, but I just can't bring myself to go there. In bright indoor light or daylight I have no trouble, so I'm putting off getting reading glasses for the nonce.
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Old 02-26-2017, 01:19 PM   #249
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I never noticed it didn't have page numbers. . what bugs me is I can't fold the top corner of the page to save my place in the book.
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Old 02-26-2017, 02:47 PM   #250
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I've just swiped the page of a real book. Three times, then realised why it wasn't going to work... :-)
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Old 02-26-2017, 03:06 PM   #251
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Exactly. This. ^. After all, a print book doesn't tell you X of Y unless you do the same thing. Flip to the back, see how many pages there are, etc.

I understand the progress thing. Makes perfect sense to me. Or, X minutes remaining in this book. What I don't get is the page numbers thing, versus Locations, or the "page numbers" created, on the fly, by other devices, that are just as fake as Location numbers. That's kind of my question. Is it because they are called "pages?"

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I like ADE style page numbers because they work. They are the same regardless of font size, line hight & margins. You make a change to any of those and the page numbers stay the same. It's also the same regardless of screen size. ADE page numbers are even the same across different devices. So IMHO, ADe page numbers are the best page numbers for eBooks. Oh and they do not require an extra file (aka Kindle).
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Old 02-26-2017, 03:23 PM   #252
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I've just swiped the page of a real book. Three times, then realised why it wasn't going to work... :-)
OMG, I've done that! (Does it, looks around to see if anyone saw her...)

The other thing I've done is get frustrated, trying to remember a recipe for specific ingredients, and go to search...and then realize, "aw, crap, this is a PRINT book!"

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I like ADE style page numbers because they work. They are the same regardless of font size, line hight & margins. You make a change to any of those and the page numbers stay the same. It's also the same regardless of screen size. ADE page numbers are even the same across different devices. So IMHO, ADe page numbers are the best page numbers for eBooks. Oh and they do not require an extra file (aka Kindle).
Generic ADE page numbers are basically the same thing as Kindle locations only locations are more specific.
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Old 02-26-2017, 03:51 PM   #254
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Generic ADE page numbers are basically the same thing as Kindle locations only locations are more specific.
Another difference is that Jon likes ADE pages better.
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Well there is that.
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