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Excellent points, Peter. Thanks. I think I will just relegate the K2 to 'pleasure' reading status, and all academic books will be printed from here on out. I guess I was looking for a justification that wasn't needed or actually there. I've got the K2 now, I might as well enjoy it.
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You needn't relegate it only to pleasure reading. True, you should never cite an ebook in an academic paper. The page number issue is a problem, yes, but ebooks are also not accessible in the same way that pbooks are. And what's more, ebooks are simply not considered scholarly enough for citation; not at this point anyway. It may be unfair, but that's the way it is.
That doesn't you can't use the ebook at all, however. When you're writing your paper, open up Kindle for PC and copy-and-paste the text you want to quote, but instead of citing page number, just use the format "(Author ###)" (for MLA). You could highlight it in yellow or bold it or whatever else you need to do to make it stand out later--but the "###" will be an easy search string. When you're done writing the paper, spend a couple hours at the library tracking down good scholarly editions of the books and find your page references in them. Annoying, yes, but you'll be able to check your Kindle quotations against a closely-edited academic version of the book, and what with find text features, you'll be able to zero-in on the page numbers pretty quickly.