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Originally Posted by HarryT
You don't have to stick to a single progress method!
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Indeed.
There are two mechanisms I thought would be especially generally useful:
1. Include in future ebooks formats a method of automatically converting from absolute byte count or internal data identifier to the host device's location format.
2. Refer to text, not to arbitrary positional markers. Rather than page numbers, e-editions could refer to section titles, first sentences, etc. The search feature makes that practical, and possibly easier to use.
I do appreciate that if e-editions are to be used along side print editions of a particular version of the book, like in a classroom, then it makes sense for one of the options to be the page reference of the print edition.
I reject the notion of needing literal page numbers for external published citations. They change from edition to edition anyway, any page number you give requires specifying the edition, and would, presumably, requiter a fact-checker to seek out that edition, so you might as well cite using, say, the Kindle location, and specify that as your edition.