One of the odd things I noticed about my Kindle when I first got it was that it used "locations" instead of page numbers for books. Based on Amazon's arguments, due to the changing of text sizes and other particulars, it was difficult to use page numbers for e-books. Strangely, Apple's iPad did not have this problem.
I worked on it for a while, tried to see it from Amazon's view, but I was never able to wrap my head around this particular, rather inelegant solution. Not only that I was never able to get a handle on the location values. Were they based on paragraphs? Lines? Words? None of the above as far as I could tell. I'm not a stupid fellow, but this was beyond me.
The book I'm reading now, Stephen Pressfield's new novel, The Profession, uses page numbers not locations. Is it a big switch? No. Did I read more than a third of the book before I noticed? Yes. Am I happy they gave up on the stupidity of "locations" hell yeah.
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