Thread: Sick of Amazon Kindle books without Page Numbers...
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Old 04-05-2016, 08:59 AM   #170
davidfor
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Why does the fact that some books have multiple editions make it any less useful, David? It would appear to be fairly self-evident that, if you give a page number as a reference, you have to specify which edition of the book you're referring to.
Yes, but the ebook publisher isn't going to create an ebook for every paper edition out there. People who are asking this are probably wanting to match the paper edition that is on their shelves.

For reference books, a page number and edition is probably useful. For fiction, not so much.
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