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Old 12-11-2010, 04:50 PM   #51
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Originally Posted by wdreamsmaycome View Post
from my perspective the main hassle with page numbers is when a book references itself (very common in some material) and says things like 'see the note on page xyz for more info on this' or 'see page yyy for an example' etc.

I think that either these 'see page xyz' should be dynamically recalculated (would be more difficult to do) or there should be a way to say 'send me approximately to page xyz of the print edition of the book' which wouldn't be very hard to do since Amazon would know how many pages the pbook had, so you could do a % based guess of where you should be
Surely in an ebook, internal cross references should simply be implemented as hyperlinks, shouldn't they? Why would one need to use a page number at all for such a purpose?
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