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Originally Posted by nekokami
There's been an ongoing discussion about how to reference ebooks in scholarly works. Many people think that we may end up going by paragraph number, since page number may vary so much between editions. Would it be possible to put a tool in ipdf that would allow the user to tap an icon, then tap a paragraph to get a popup with the paragraph index number (on text-based PDFs)? Or a gesture would be fine.
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Wouldn't it be easier if scholary works just used numbered multi-level paragraphs, like "§2.3.1 Other options"? Then it would be visible without any hassle. Lots of authors already use that. The others don't deserve to be referenced
Besides, this is already a problem with paper editions; you have to refer to page number on a specific edition, since the layout/paper size might vary. Mighty annoying if you have another edition and have to guess which page they mean.