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Originally Posted by frabjous
As a university instructor, I'm quite accustomed to referring to page numbers, and as of yet, I haven't seen a good alternative. Sometimes sections and chapters, etc., are enough to refer to, but often books aren't really structured well-enough. (I find this especially true for books that began as transcripts of lectures.) I don't know much about Kindle's "locations", but they sound a little too narrowly individuated.
If I tell my students to "read pages 12-44" now, that's far less of a mouthful than "read locations 1150-1797". And at least some of them will want to read on paper, so they can highlight and scrawl notes. Having all these locations printed on the page would be distracting.
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As a professor, I agree whole heartedly with all that.
As well as needing page numbers, or consistent locations etc. for citing page numbers in articles I write, and myself preferring paper for academic books and journal articles so I can highlight and make notes on the document and quickly flip through them when writing up literature reviews.
So the e-reader technology has a long way to go before I'll be willing to switch for my work. Though I was happy to make the switch for my leisure novel reading as any device that displays text well, and easy to hold and read is fine for that.