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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
I will concede to your point sort of.
The sort of is if there is only paper book version. Otherwise what is on page 100 in one version may be on page 110 or 90 in another version.
Hence my dear professor, that is why we were all taught to reference a specific edition of a book.
But I still say for just reading, page numbers are not very useful on devices.
Yes, they would be useful if I was writing an academic paper.
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Although I don't have a Kindle I voted because I do consider page numbers somewhat important, especially when it comes to reference books. I have a pbook (
Carpenters - Album by Album: Song by Song by Rick Henry) that doesn't feature a table of contents or page number (it looks like they took an ebook and just printed it). It's a very informative and entertaining book, but the lack of page numbers and a table of contents makes it difficult to find a specific album or song and I end up having to flip around the book until I reach the information I'm looking for.
When it comes to ebooks, I've wondered if a good alternative to page numbers would be paragraph numbers (which could be displayed or hidden)? Since paragraphs wouldn't be affected by the formatting of an ebook it would offer a consistent way to refer to a specific location in the ebook (tonight's reading assignment is to read
A Tale Of Two Cities, paragraphs 1520 to 1700).