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Originally Posted by jocampo
An example ...
Teacher: please open the book on page 21
Student: hmmm... I wonder which page is page 21 ... hmmm...
So for students who replaced or would like to replace their heavy text books for their corresponding ebook versions, having a page numbers is a plus. And one of the reason why PDFs are still a valid format and so common for technical documents.
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Most PDF text books have hard pages numbers that appear on the displayed pages, so in those cases, it's a non-issue. The Kindle user can flip to the right page just like the DTB user.
If not, if we're talking about just a few students, then just as they would do if they happened to be using a slightly different edition of the DTB (that happened a lot when I was in school) they would check with a neighbor as to what the section or text was, and then could INSTANTLY search for it on the Kindle.
If we're talking about A LOT of students, as I hope will soon be the case, then the teacher should bloody well just say the name of the chapter or section, or first line of text, so the Kindle users can instantly search and zip to it. Actually, since the teacher will probably be using a Kindle, too, why not just say the location?
Then it'll be the poor paper book users who hold up the class while they get to their archaic page numbers.
Come to think of it, I remember quite often in college classes, the teacher would call a page number AND say "That's the section starting with
Analysis of widget design" because so many students DID in fact have different page numbers in their editions.