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Old 08-01-2014, 11:07 AM   #15
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It's called metadata for a reason. Simply fill in dc:source with the isbn number of the specific print edition.

And, yes real commercial ebooks do this even for popular press fiction. for example most of the last 5 or so Jim Butcher ebooks do this quite nicely.



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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
If there are multiple print editions with different age numbers, how will you know which print edition the page map uses? You don't as it doesn't say. Also, most eBook do not have a page map so for ePub, the only page numbering you have is that of ADE. So really, if you are going to be citing from multiple books and you feel you need to have a page number that aligns with some print edition, the forget eBooks.
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