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On the Kindle 1 and Kindle 2, page numbers are irrelevant, since you can change the size of the text, which changes how many words are on a "page" (or more properly, screen). The bigger the text size, the more pages the book would have. Instead of pages, the Kindles use the term "locations". There are typically several locations on the same screen. The locations are constant regardless of text size: location 200 is the same place in the book at all text sizes. You can figure out approximately what page you are on if you know how many pages there are in the paper version of the book (this is often shown on the product page at Amazon). The Kindle 2 shows you on the screen what percentage of the book you have read, what locations are on your screen, and how many total locations there are. Use this formula (you can do it in a calculator):Current location divided by the number of location multiplied by the total number of pages in the bookLet’s say you are on page 50 of a 200 location book that has 100 total pages.(50/200) * 100 = 25You don’t have to worry about the parentheses.This may not be exactly right, because the paper version and the Kindle version may be a bit different. They may not have all the same pictures, and the introduction to the book may be different.The Kindle DX (released in June 2009) will work the same way for most files. However, it can read pdf (portable document format) files without conversion. When you do that you can not change the text size (although you can turn the Kindle sideways so the text gets bigger), so it can show you page numbers.================For more Frequently Asked Kindle Questions, see:http://www.amazon.com/tag/kindle/forum/ref=cm_cd_ef_tft_tp?%5Fencoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx1D7SY3BVSESG&cdThread=Tx2ELH7RBF7D78R(Amazon thread relevant to the discussion)

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