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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
How many times is this going to be rehashed!! It's almost as bad as DRM.
1. Page numbers are archaic, the only possible reason to support them is to refer to pbooks that don't have an e-version
2. References of sufficient granularity can be achieved using paragraph numbers (and please don't trot out the three isolated examples where paragraph numbers don't work). The only software support needed for this is to make e-book reader software that can display an overlay of automatically generated paragraph numbers.
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there ya go. I was thinking along the lines of something like hard coded "positon reference" tags that could be used as part of the formatting code. But increasing it to the pargraph level of granularity is even better. Unless of course some , ahem, author, decides it would be funny to have a 1000 sentence paragraph.
Heck for books that essentially use HTML the adding of a value for the "id" value of the html tags is already there for the taking, no extra custom stuff needed.
EDIT: well, maybe the ID tag might not be ideal...some books might already use it for other uses so using it as a way to ID paragraphs would likely cause a mess...custom tags to the rescue I guess.