I have the Kindle for iPhone application. It doesn’t show a specific page number (largely because the ‘pages’ on the Kindle don’t correspond to the pages on a physical book, because you can change the size of the font). But if you tap the screen, it will show you a slider that indicates how far you are from the end.

I doubt it, and it would be even worse if you read some of the books I’ve read. Take my advice; stay away from Cryptonomicon , the three-volume Baroque Cycle… basically anything Neal Stephenson has written in the last few years ;)

There is also the possibility that writing styles in general have changed such that there really isn’t anything that will help. I have seen an increasing number of books that have preview chapters of other books, multiple appendices, glossaries, Dramatis Personae, etcetera that really make the remaining pages and the resolution of the story (or in Neal Stephenson’s case, stories) two entirely unrelated things in the first place.

Kindle DX has a bar across the page bottom indicating percentage of the book preceeding that page.

Well, I don’t think it’ll solve the problem. If you do plan to get a kindle for fun though. wait for the tablets

@loveurmindnsoul I still maintain that the netbooks are a better way to spend $300 considering the number of e-books I have on mine and all of the other things I can do that a Kindle can’t.

Pagination changes due to your ability to reset the text size, but there is a progress-bar.

@pdworkin And what if the end of the story isn’t the end of the book?

You are then shit out of luck.