Comment 8 for bug 1846700

Apparently we are hung with the semantics of "absolute". For me, "absolute" is the opposite of "relative". So any metric which is not relative to total size (or page viewing time so far) is "absolute". And as I said above, it needs not be the Calibre 3.x position number (although it would be consistent with length from the "Page Count" add-on). Anything will do, as long it's not size-relative: word index, byte/character index, standard page count (=characters/2000 or such), page/screen index, whatever.

However, I get the impression that you are simply loth to implement (or rather re-implement) this option. So ok, if you hate that poor old "position number" and love that shiny new "remaining reading time" … …

Thank you again for this in every (other) respect wonderful software. Greetings, LCA