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Kovid, a question on this. It keeps bothering me that all bibliographic 'standards' still recommend NOT using ebook locations in citation. Their argument is that those locations are device-specific and so are worthless. But as far as I understand, your ebook viewer's 'location' is NOT device-specific, right? In that case, would it be possible, in this new in-browser book reader to make it so that one could create footnotes in documents (for instance through bibliographical software programs like Zotero - and I have just made an analogous recommendation in their forum too) that would contain a hyperlink to the precise location in any e-publication? So right now, if a citation contains a reference to a publication's page number, one has to 'manually' find the book or article, then find the page and then find the cited passage on that page. But with this solution - especially if players like Google Books or Scholar would be able and willing to implement the links to the sources - we could just click through to the actual passage with one click. Any thoughts?
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