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Originally Posted by ChrisChillin
Citations, citations, citations.
I would only stick to physical books for my PhD work as long as ebooks lack some sort of standardized pagination system. "Locations" won't work for my dissertation unless all the examiners happen to have Kindles and to have bought all the cited books in Kindle format. Page numbers tied to print editions they can check in the library - now that will work for academia.
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For citation purposes, you should use the location (as has been adopted by a couple of standards now), not the page number of the corresponding edition (unless you go grab that edition and double check the text you are looking at ... it can be different between e- and paper editions for many reasons, plus a page can split differently, so that you are looking at the end of one page and the beginning of another at the same time on the Kindle.
As for your professors checking your citations - I suspect one or all will have a Kindle or could ask for yours to do the research, especially if they didn't happen to have that one book. Or, you could just loan it to them at the end, when you turn everything in and have them check the numbers they want using Kindle for PC/MAC.