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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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03-26-2016, 08:40 AM | #16 |
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I like page numbers. Even though they're inconsistent, they track reasonably well within genres and they give me a far better sense of how long a book is than Amazon's reading time indicator, which doesn't reflect my own idiosyncrasies very well. I also prefer to do my own percentage calculation, which can differ significantly in a book heavy with notes and index. I even think I retain a book slightly better, when I can mentally relate the text to position in a book; the percentage doesn't serve that purpose for me. Finally, page numbers make it easier to switch between devices without syncing.
Lack of page numbers doesn't keep me from reading a book, but I prefer the experience with page numbers. |
03-26-2016, 09:30 AM | #17 |
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Page numbers have no meaning when dealing with dynamic textual content.
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03-26-2016, 09:59 AM | #18 | |
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Though not sure the grain count. I do like percentages in a book. |
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03-26-2016, 11:01 AM | #19 |
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I do not care about page numbers I keep my voyage on how many minutes are left in the chapter.
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03-26-2016, 11:14 AM | #20 |
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I prefer a page number to a percentage or time remaining, but I don't much care whether it is a 'real' page number from some unspecified paper version of the book or a synthetic page number generated by the ereader.
But much more useful to me would be progress indicators and stats based on word counts, which would remain meaningful across all formats of the book whether paper, ebook, or audiobook. |
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03-26-2016, 11:53 AM | #21 |
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My Kindles (scaled) Reading Progress bar is all I need. It even has pips at the chapter points.
Anchors are all that is needed to land at a specific (TOC, Index, Glossary) point. Page numbers are so overrated |
03-26-2016, 12:05 PM | #22 |
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I prefer no progess indicator of any kind be visible while I'm reading. I may bring it up (manually) on very rare occasions to see how far along I am, but most often, I simply don't want to know how far away I am from the end of anything--chapter, section, or book. I love flying blind. No plot assumptions based on how "thick" the remaining "pages" are on the right side. I wasn't able to achieve that level of blissful ignorance with physical books, so that's just one more thing for the "why I switched to ebooks" column.
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03-26-2016, 12:23 PM | #23 |
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Don't think I ever checked/looked at the page numbers, if present.
The progress bar when brought up manually is more important. BUT the most important item is the MoonReader's micro status bar that showed how much battery is left in percentage; let's me think about when to charge up at the end of the chapter/section. The other item is MoonReader's ability to set the bookmark by just touching the upper right corner "somewhere"; very convenient. |
03-26-2016, 12:34 PM | #24 |
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Don't care for Page or % Most time I set to Blank. When books done its done I move on to the next
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03-26-2016, 12:51 PM | #25 |
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I've never used page numbers when reading on an electronic device.
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03-26-2016, 01:35 PM | #26 |
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I prefer page numbers , lacking that then percentages of how far I am along in a book. I never pay attention to how far along I am in a chapter. Or reading speed. I just want to know how far along I am in a book.
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03-26-2016, 03:33 PM | #27 | |
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03-26-2016, 03:35 PM | #28 |
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Sorry you made the poll only about Kindle books. This means I cannot vote as I read ePub.
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03-26-2016, 04:11 PM | #29 |
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03-26-2016, 05:25 PM | #30 |
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