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Originally Posted by HarryT
You and I might be using completely different reading devices.
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Yes, which just leads me back to my original point that the only way to guarantee that everybody is on the same page (LOL) is to have everybody using the same thing - physical or electronic. If you're saying that you can have the same font size and same font face of the same electronic copy - but get different results because different devices are being used - that's just an order of complexity. Going back to the classroom, everybody gets the same physical book. In the same classroom, people would also be given the same ebook reader.
I don't think that there's anything intrinsically harder in terms of getting to the same page in the electronic world than in the physical world. (In fact, I've never personally referred to a particular page in my life. I've always just said, "The point in the book where...," or, "Towards the end, right after," etc. So, for me, the actual "problem" is a moot point.) But we do need to work on better solutions so that people can refer to the same thing no matter what they're using to read something on.
Does it need to be so precise as a particular
page? Couldn't the same thing be accomplished by saying "Chapter X, paragraph Y" - and have those elements tracked?