Thread: Kindle adds Page Numbers (and more)
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Old 02-08-2011, 07:23 PM   #51
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Originally Posted by elemenoP View Post
You know, I lol'ed at the article that said Amazon had its own format so that they could make it better and not have to wait around for new standards to be adopted. But now they have actually done it. This addresses two separate but related complaints: "regular people" who just want to know how long the book is, and academics who need to cite a specific page number of a specific edition. Kudos to Amazon.

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EPub has had content related page numbers since the beginning.

And Kindle page numbers were always stable, so they are just as useful for citing.
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