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my guess is that, of the 7 million volumes google will scan at umichigan,
just as one example, 99.98% of them will have pagenumbers in them...
those are the books that will form the cyberlibrary of the future, and thus
those are the books that we need to find a way to make _pointers_ into...
as pagenumbers have been the pointer-system used on them up until now,
we'll need to create digital means so that we can continue to support that,
and that infrastructure will allow us to continue using pagenumber pointers.
yes, we'll have other means too, but we'll need to make pagenumbers work.
luckily, as i believe i've shown in the examples i've posted, it's not too hard.
-bowerbird
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