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Originally Posted by Krystl
I must respectfully disagree, Sil_liS. When quoting, etc. in academics, it is always by page number. It is the world-wide accepted format for quoting books, magazines and journals. That is the reason the publishing information is so vital (and also why full URLs are required for websites, as well as the "date" of "download"). If I quote from a book in my work, just giving a section title does not "cut the cake". I STILL have to find a hard copy page reference.
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Maybe we are talking about different things. Most books that I use are well structured, and quoting page numbers can be easily be replaced by the section number (for example section 2.5.3 instead of page 128). They would be easy to find with the search function in ebooks.