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Originally Posted by weatherman
Maybe I don't understand how the pagination works on the Kindle. Are the numbers at the bottom lines, sentences, or paragraphs? Everyone keeps using the word "section" which is a little vague in this case.
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On the Kindle, since the page count and page location would change everytime you changed the font size, the number marks locations which are fixed points throughout the text (every so many bytes or something like that) and thus will never change regardless of font size. The main problem is that there is no direct correlation between a "location" in a file and a page in any particular edition of a book (and even with paper books, you still have to cite publisher and edition, paperbacks will have different page numbering than hardbacks, Everyman will have different numbering than Penguin, etc.)
"Section" is a reference to those texts that actually use "sections" to divide segments of a book, if a book has chapters but no sections, you would cite the chapter and not the section.
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Originally Posted by MobileRead Wiki
A: Kindle shows your numeric location in what you are reading, so you can easily find a particular passage or reference it to your friends. Locations are the digital answer to page numbers. Since you can change the text size on Kindle, the page numbers would change too, but with locations, you can be confident that you return to the same place every time regardless of the text size you prefer. -Kindle Team
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