On Mon, 18 Oct 2010, Karen Lofstrom wrote:
Michael S. Hart wrote:
Why make it harder than it has to be? Why reinvent the wheel yet again? A simple search for even just three short words ...
Because you can't put "search for XXX" as a scholarly citation. Pagination has been the old scholarly default, but it doesn't work if there is more than one edition of the book.
I should have expected that a community such as this, which contains no scholars and is often hostile to them (or should I be saying us? I'm an independent scholar, if not an academic), wouldn't understand.
Part of the solution has to be ebook readers and software that make displaying scholarly apparatus, such as footnotes and sidenotes, endnotes and references, as well as the suggested chapter and verse numbers, easy to do. Also making annotations, inserting notes, making links.
We'll get there eventually.
-- Karen Lofstrom
We should be writing for "Everyman" not for every scholar. Michael