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I know we are on a tangent now, but the C scale only seems odd or limited if you are in America. Heck, I am in California but have been out of the US enough to prefer C. So what if it is seemingly only limited to 40 degrees in terms of climate. I find F fairly worthless outside of a 70 degree range (I'm in California after all). What I find more annoying is that people will nit pick on 1 degree here and there. At least in Celcius's 1.8 deg F / degree C, a degree has more meaning. I also like the idea that negative means sub-freezing.
As for locations. I like them. As a former graduate student, I could see issues with them, but I actually think they would work better than pages. I rarely quoted books, but it was always annoying to look for references that were books and wonder whether I had the right book or not because its page numbers didn't match or the specific page wasn't right. Fortunately, I dealt with papers more often which are starting to do away with pages all together since they are often published as PDFs and are actually looked at more based on word content and the area the text / figures / tables occupy.
However, I do wonder how bad things would be if a system were worked out with the locations being divided by 10 from what they are and then expressed with decimals... i.e. what if location 103 was now location 10.3 and location 1324 was 132.4. Perhaps it could even go as far as letting the user decide whether he/she wants to see that much info.... i.e. show location 132 instead of 132.4, but make it optional.
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