I could have used the Time To Read feature last night - I got into bed last night to read without realizing I was three pages from the end of the book. (Granted, I could have looked at the percentage last night and noticed I was 98% done, BUT STILL.)
Cacophony. That's pretty. What's it mean?
Harmony ,'Underneath'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Jessica - Sep 07, 2012 7:46:21 am PDT #19679 of 28344
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Polter-Cow - Sep 07, 2012 7:59:15 am PDT #19680 of 28344
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
98% is misleading, though! You don't know if the book actually goes to 100% or not. Like the Sherlock Holmes books I have are from Project Gutenberg, so at the end is all the copyright information and whatnot, so the books actually end in the 90% range.
It's like how I have to check each ASOIAF book to figure out when all the damn appendices start so I can gauge when I'll hit the end of the actual book.
le nubian - Sep 07, 2012 8:53:03 am PDT #19681 of 28344
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
flea - Sep 07, 2012 9:55:31 am PDT #19682 of 28344
information libertarian
The thing is, Roth is mad that the Wikipedia article states that his character is alleged to have been inspired by Broyard. But that is a fact; several prominent reviews of the books suggested the inspiration might have been Broyard, including Kakutani in the Times; there are links in the current version of the Wikipedia article. Philip Roth can (and, obviously does) argue that the character was not inspired by Broyard. But Wikipedia is (and was) not wrong when it states that it was alleged that the character was inspired by Broyard.
So, Philip Roth is an ass, but then, I thought that anyway.
Ginger - Sep 07, 2012 3:38:37 pm PDT #19683 of 28344
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
A book called By the Blood of Heroes: The Great Undead War: Book I is being described by B&N as "zombie/historical military/steampunk."
§ ita § - Sep 08, 2012 11:39:19 am PDT #19684 of 28344
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
So what I fail entirely to understand--if you flip forward in a "real" book to find the next chapter--why don't you just do that in an e-book? That's why I asked how you were doing it before, because I assumed it was some way (I couldn't fathom) that couldn't be duplicated electronically.
I don't really see the problem, especially considering it's easier to get back to where you were up to reading.
Polter-Cow - Sep 08, 2012 11:58:10 am PDT #19685 of 28344
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
How? Maybe I'm not doing it right. I can go up to the next chapter, but the change in percentage doesn't really tell me how many "pages" I have left, and to get back to where I was I have to flip back manually page by page or go to the chapter I was in and flip forward manually.
sj - Sep 08, 2012 12:01:26 pm PDT #19686 of 28344
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
How? Maybe I'm not doing it right. I can go up to the next chapter, but the change in percentage doesn't really tell me how many "pages" I have left, and to get back to where I was I have to flip back manually page by page or go to the chapter I was in and flip forward manually.
Exactly. With a physical book you can put your finger on your current page while you flip forward to find the end of the chapter (or even to the last page of the book) and then mark that page with a bookmark, so you don't have to keep checking.
Gris - Sep 08, 2012 12:53:35 pm PDT #19687 of 28344
Hey. New board.
Do most of your books not show the fake page numbers, and P-C? You can also use the gesture to go to the next chapter then click the back button on the menu bar to return to your pre flip location. The back button is the only thing that kept me from throwing the Kindle touch at the wall ages ago, since I accidentally flip to the next chapter basically every other page.
sj - Sep 08, 2012 1:14:00 pm PDT #19688 of 28344
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
The gesture? There are no fake page numbers on my kindle, only percentages. I've had my kindle for several years, so they may have changed it since then.