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Old 03-28-2009, 12:35 PM   #45
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Originally Posted by Hadrien View Post
You're the only one having a philosophical argument here: I'm pointing out that the standard requires such a unique identifier and that reading systems will use it too.
It can be catastrophic if one day we wish to handle such things such as shared annotations as we won't be able to rely on the identifier to identify a book (which is the whole purpose of an identifier).
And I'm saying that the standard is being idiotic. It's not possible to have a unique ID for every ebook file ever created. And any reader system that relies on this aspect of the standard is going to fall flat on its face.
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