The Guardian addresses the issue of skipping while reading.
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DavidS - Jan 05, 2012 6:26:44 pm PST #17342 of 28277
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
meara - Jan 05, 2012 6:37:44 pm PST #17343 of 28277
I generally looove my kindle (goodbye days of not having enough room in the bag for the number of books I need!), but admit the inability to flip around and find the sections you want is irritating. I mean, you can "bookmark" stuff, but it's just not nearly as easy. I don't usually have a problem with that, but when I was using a guidebook on the kindle it was a big PITA.
sj - Jan 05, 2012 6:40:51 pm PST #17344 of 28277
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I love my kindle, but I get annoyed at the lack of pages numbers. I want to know how many pages I have read.
megan walker - Jan 05, 2012 6:44:54 pm PST #17345 of 28277
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Yeah, I never realized how much I rely on peeking ahead to see where the chapter ends until I used the Kindle. That's just one of many reasons why I don't want one, but it was a bigger one than I would have thought.
§ ita § - Jan 05, 2012 6:47:46 pm PST #17346 of 28277
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Kindles don't have page numbers? Nooks do, but they're weird. I'm not sure what they align with. The printed book, maybe? Because when you change the font size, your page number doesn't change.
I did use the dictionary for the first time this Christmas (orrery? WTF?), and that was really nifty, especially since I didn't have an internet connection. I also used it on the same day to look something up for my sister that wasn't in the book. Which reminded me, I should load up a dictionary or two on my mobile devices. Silly oversight.
sumi - Jan 05, 2012 6:49:32 pm PST #17347 of 28277
Art Crawl!!!
Kindles tell you what percentage of the book you've read.
Amy - Jan 05, 2012 6:51:44 pm PST #17348 of 28277
Because books.
I'm actually liking not having page numbers, and the lack of easy skippability. I hate it when I flip forward to peek, and I'm not doing it at all on the Kindle.
sj - Jan 05, 2012 6:51:58 pm PST #17349 of 28277
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Kindles tell you what percentage of the book you've read.
Yeah, I hate that. Especially when I am reading one novel in a collection (like the complete works of an author). It seems to stay on whatever percentage you are on of that book forever.
§ ita § - Jan 05, 2012 6:56:07 pm PST #17350 of 28277
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I like percentages. Since the Nook pages don't flip with when you move ahead in the book every time, that's pretty much the arithmetic I'm doing any time. And that's how I look at a normal book's progress too, by proportion.
Which means I'm disproportionately irritated by indices (Hundred Thousand Kingdoms totally didn't need one) and "bonus" material (sycophantic interviews) if it sets my count off.
Not precisely the point, but for some reason it distracts me.
Sophia Brooks - Jan 06, 2012 1:41:19 am PST #17351 of 28277
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Wow- from the comments on that article, I gather skipping is rather reviled. I had no idea.
Does anyone else feel they read by sort of taking a snapshot of the age, and somehow digesting what is on it, rather then following along with each word like you were reading aloud. I think sometimes I digest more than others, in addition to skipping.
Also, I skip a lot less in YA novels, possibly because I can read them in one sitting and, barring Harry Potter, the good ones have less going on for pages and pages about trees or something.