Her Serene Highness wrote:
Why do you care whether academics cite PG? You seem to think they should come to you- did you ever think we have this thing called a 'page' that acts as a standard unit of knowledge, and that when we cite something, we need that page to stay reasonably stable?
Did it ever occur to you that the "page" as "standard unit of knowledge" is a purely arbitrary thing? The standard unit of knowledge depends on the information technology of the epoch. It first was the "cave wall", then became the "clay plate", then it became the "scroll", then it became the "page" and today it is the "internet resource". I can google any cited phrase on the net in a few keystrokes' time. OTOH to verify a quotation, it may take months until I get my hands on a physical copy of some random obscure book . -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org