"So how the hell is it possible that the Kindle doesn’t have a feature as obvious as page numbers? You know what happens when you don’t have page numbers? You can’t do a basic footnote for anything you’ve read. Yeah, that’s going to be a slight problem for the college market."Page numbers as a reference have always been dicey. If everyone is using the same printing of a book it works fine. Hardcover vs. paperback or printings of the same book from different years or publishers, the page numbers have always been different.
Act one, Scene one... Its gonna be a Chapter/Paragraph Number here on out. We need to wrap out heads around this and make sure all e-reading software can handle it. HTML/XML can handle tagged paragraphs, otherwise its just a matter of counting--I hear computers are good at that.
Of course, there are always hyperlinks.
Check out Chris Meadows's take on the subject:
How do you cite an e-book’s ‘page number’? | TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics: "There are MLA and APA guidelines to citing e-books, too, though neither of them expressly mentions (that I can find) what to do about a book that has no page numbering. But I imagine “location number” would suffice in those cases too, especially with some explanation to the professor of the nature of the source.
It really does seem a bit odd that neither of these citation guides addresses the page-numbering matter. Lacy does have a point, though perhaps not the one she meant to make: the academic world does need to come to terms with how to do citation of e-books without page numbering, because e-books are only going to get more popular from here."
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