04-13-2009, 11:38 AM | #16 | |
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So you can tell roughly what % of the book you've read, but no way to gauge how long it is and how many pages/locations you have left. |
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04-13-2009, 02:13 PM | #17 |
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Once you are used to the K1, you easily get a feeling for how quickly the dots are becoming black, so that you can gauge your progress. Also, the location numbers become familiar after a while. Of course, the relative length of the dots on the Home Page give a relative size, also.
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04-13-2009, 03:00 PM | #18 |
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Yeah, it's no big deal. I just wish the K1 had the total locations listed too.
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04-13-2009, 06:54 PM | #19 | |
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04-13-2009, 07:15 PM | #20 | |
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On the K1 the dots span the bottom of the screen when a book is open regardless of how long the book is and it doesn't list total number of locations so you can't tell easily. You could jump to the end of the book or last chapter or something I suppose. But that's annoying and the K1 is so slow to jump to places in a book and back to bookmarks etc. Again, it's just a minor annoyance. For instance, I no I'm roughly 75% through Crime and Punishment but have no idea how many "pages" I have left as I haven't bothered to jump to the end to see how many locations there are. Sounds like the K2 has fixed the issue reasonably, by listing % read and total locations though. |
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04-13-2009, 09:12 PM | #21 |
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Yeah, I know how the Kindle 1 does it. I've had one for a year. I just don't see the difference between gauging how far you've read by the thickness of a book versus the progress meter. Both work just fine for me.
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i.e., you know you're half way through, but can't tell if you have 100 pages or 500 pages left just by glancing at the progress bar. You have to know how many locations there are, and unfortunately it doesn't list that like the K2. |
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04-14-2009, 12:01 AM | #23 |
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On the K1, selecting "Go to Location" from the menu will show you the size of the book (i.e., what the final location number is). It takes a second or two, and it is not always on-screen, but it is pretty easily available.
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04-14-2009, 11:49 AM | #24 |
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Good to know.
And yeah, slowness with stuff like that would probably be my biggest gripe with the Kindle. For the price I really didn't think things like that, or opening a book, or getting to a bookmark, or looking up a word would take so long. The processor is damn slow. Oh well, one of the costs of being an early adopter I guess. |
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