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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."

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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.

Calli - Sep 08, 2012 1:19:12 pm PDT #19689 of 28344

I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Books in my Kindle app have page numbers. I wonder why they did that differently?

§ ita § - Sep 08, 2012 6:12:18 pm PDT #19690 of 28344

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

You make a note of the page you're on, flip to the end of the chapter, and then Go To by page. Or you can bookmark where you are, I guess, if remembering the page number is above and beyond.

Why would you not do that?

sj - Sep 08, 2012 6:21:18 pm PDT #19691 of 28344

"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

You make a note of the page you're on, flip to the end of the chapter, and then Go To by page. Or you can bookmark where you are, I guess, if remembering the page number is above and beyond.

But there are no page numbers.

§ ita § - Sep 08, 2012 6:24:11 pm PDT #19692 of 28344

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

And no bookmarking either?

You shoulda gotta Nook.

sj - Sep 08, 2012 6:30:09 pm PDT #19693 of 28344

"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

I think there is bookmarking, but I don't have the kindle in front of me right now. I like my kindle other than the page number thing, but I am perhaps a little too obsessed with know how many pages I have read, how many pages I have left, etc.

Polter-Cow - Sep 08, 2012 8:31:06 pm PDT #19694 of 28344

What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

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.

Huh! I never knew you could do that. THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING. Well, it changes a little.

le nubian - Sep 08, 2012 10:05:02 pm PDT #19695 of 28344

"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

there is a bookmark for the kindle app

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