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Originally Posted by Ken Irving
The fundamental problem is twofold: ebook formats were not made with citation by precise location in mind, and thus have no standards for this; and readers that use those formats tend to implement what standards there are very differently anyway. If academics get together and come up with a set of e-reader standards for "e-paginaton" that ereaders must use in order to be certified for academic use, that might force some consistency. Companies like Amazon and B&N that are actively courting the academic market will listen if they think not using a pagination standard will lose big sales, or give the competition an edge. Until then, it's like the wild west when it comes to finding your place in an ebook, and telling someone else just exactly where that place is.
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it's what i'm crossing my fingers for.
i don't really have a lot of access to academic books so all i can do is buy them. i was all happy about that (even if the price is high enough to sting but, hey, the delivery is nigh instantaneous) but then i realised i might have a lot of headaches having to cite them.
so, even though my enthusiasm has waned significantly, i'm hoping a citing standard will be developed sooner rather than later.