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Old 03-28-2009, 01:00 PM   #46
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
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.
Do you think that the intended purpose of this is to "globally identify" every book ever created, or simply to provide a unique ID for every book that's likely to be in a user's catalog or on a library system? The latter would be quite straightforward to achieve.
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