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Originally Posted by MikeB1972
I'd have thought the biggest problem with referencing specific locations in ebooks would be updates. Revision numbers appear to be an afterthought so it is nigh on impossible to tell what, if any, changes have been made and you can't get an older version anyway, so if you reference an exact point in an ebook and changes are made then the reference is useless.
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Isn't it the same for paper editions?
If there is more than 1 edition.
The DSM comes to mind. There are at least 4 editions and all of them have significant changes. So referencing any specific behavior in one may be something totally different or absent in another. Which is why one needs to reference the specific book.
Any classic book is probably the same as there are many versions of them.
*Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders.