e-book endings
I recently finished an e-book and the ending took me by surprise - not because of the content but because I wasn't expecting the book to end so soon.
This cannot happen with a physical book, and it seems to me authors intending to publish an e-book should give this some thought. A contents list at the beginning would help, as would using chapters. The e-book which took me by surprise was written in a series of sections, some of them quite short, but without chapters.
This cannot happen with a physical book, and it seems to me authors intending to publish an e-book should give this some thought. A contents list at the beginning would help, as would using chapters. The e-book which took me by surprise was written in a series of sections, some of them quite short, but without chapters.
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John
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Dec 22, 2014 11:58PM
Not knowing what device you used to read it, I'll chime in that Amazon Kindle books give running percentages; Epub formatted ones (Nook, Sony, etc.) give page counts such as "123 of 210". Moreover, there are ways of accessing a Table of Contents, though that's not intuitive for new e-book readers. Non-fiction books with a slew of notes and such at the end can finish abruptly, unless one checks ahead to see where those begin and the text of the "story" ends.
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