Re: [tips] Page Numbering for Books in Kindle?

2010-04-03 Thread Christopher D. Green
Kindle versions use a different indexing system, similar to paragraph numbering. There is no reason in principle that one couldn't use that for citations. It would be no more confusing than the fact that book may have come in a number of different printings over the years that use different pag

Re: [tips] Page Numbering for Books in Kindle?

2010-04-03 Thread Beth Benoit
Here's one suggestion from the EduKindle blog: I got closest to a useful formula when I took the first actual numbered page of the book (not including the introduction)–that is, a page with “1″ on it, and looked up the corresponding “position” on my Kindle. As it turns out, Page 1 appears at posit

Re: [tips] Page Numbering for Books in Kindle?

2010-04-03 Thread Beth Benoit
Maybe the world should realize that Kindle isn't the only reader around. I have a Sony e-Reader, and it DOES show the page numbers of the original book. No matter how big or small you make the print, the original page number shows up on the side. Beth Benoit Granite State College Plymouth State

[tips] Page Numbering for Books in Kindle?

2010-04-03 Thread Mike Palij
I was reading a review of a book on Amazon and one of the customer reviewers apologized when referring to specific sections of the kindle version of the book and not giving page numbers because the kindle version doesn't give page numbers. Although I had seen kindles in use I thought that they us