jim said:
>   Jane Austen P&P is available in 4,800+ formats from
>   Amazon today alone, none of which agree on page
>   numbers. Page numbers are hopeless to use as cites.

jim, listen closely to me:  you are dense.

you don't seem to realize it, but you are
arguing my position, albeit quite clumsily.

your "4800+ formats" position summarizes
the problem, which, as i said, is inevitable.

the next step, as i just told you, is that
people will try to invent other ways to
"point at" a particular passage to discuss.

none of these methods will be compelling,
and there will be widespread disagreement
about which to utilize, thereby creating what
social psychologists call "coordination trouble".

which will bring about the third step, which
i also just informed you about, which is to
agree on a method of "canonical pagination".

you're fixated on step 1 of a 3-step process.
that's because you're dense, jim.  d-e-n-s-e.

and you also appear not to know that we have
already discussed this particular instance here.

it was back in september of 2007, when your
good buddy marcello brought up the topic...

just exactly like you, he pointed out that there
are many editions of "pride and prejudice", and
each of them differs in their pagination, thus
he asked "which pagenumbers we should use?"

the answer was simple:  it depends upon which
particular edition you are digitizing, and which
edition you'll wish to refer people to, for dialog.

you can see my response here:
>   http://z-m-l.com/go/pap/pride%20and%20prejudice(4).txt

at the time, i found 4 different editions digitized online.

so i said this;
>   if you're digitizing the 1844, use its linebreaks and pagebreaks.
>   if you're digitizing the 1853, use its linebreaks and pagebreaks.
>   if you're digitizing the 1870, use its linebreaks and pagebreaks.
>   if you're digitizing the 1892, use its linebreaks and pagebreaks.

i also said this:
>   i put the scans of the first page on my site for your convenience:
>   http://z-m-l.com/go/pap/pride_and_prejudice(4).html

so, once we evolve to step 3 of our 3-step process,
we will adopt one of these 4 "canonical paginations"
for "pride and prejudice" -- depending up which of
the 4 editions we wish to use for our discussion --
and it will be necessary for the e-book that we use
for our discussion to be able to attain that pagination.

and if none of the 4800+ versions of the book up already
can perform the task of attaining one of these paginations,
we'll toss them into the garbage, and that will decide that.

so this is what i was doing at 4:20 on 4/20, showing jim
-- once again -- that he's dense...  i must be dense too...

but i'll learn...  i'm gonna go get high now...

-bowerbird

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