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Originally Posted by Jellby
Typos might be precisely what you want to cite.
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True, though I'd suggest that's not exactly the primary reason those who have been clamoring for page numbers had in mind.
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Originally Posted by Jellby
Since page references are by no means absolute, and they must refer to some particular edition, they could just add some pseudo-pages to the ebook without making them correspond to any printed edition. Page references will have to be converted to the particular edition someone is using, anyway.
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OK, this is getting confusing - are we talking about what Amazon
have implemented, or what we think they
should or
could have done?
Page references
are absolute if they relate to a fixed media/format edition of a book, such as a specific print version. The page numbers now provided for some Kindle ebooks
do refer to a particular (print) edition (one would hope the print edition used to provide the content for the ebook version).
I'm finding myself in the position of trying to explain what Amazon
have implemented, but I'd just like to make it clear that I'm not one of those who wanted, or argued in favour of, "real" page numbers - my posts in previous threads on the subject make that pretty obvious.
