carlo said:

The most important point however is that you cannot change how books are quoted in existing books since hundreds of years.

http://books.google.com/books?id=w1kJAAAAQAAJ& dq=%22or%20not%20to%20be%22%20inauthor%3Ashakespeare&pg=RA3-PA44-IA1&ci=77%2C677%2C585%2C120&

bingo. not to mention that the idea is flawed at the outset. there are just too many complications for it to work. which you quickly discover if you try to make it work. the only people who espouse this idea are those who have never actually made any efforts to make it work. the only way you can make it work is to constrain it, and once you constrain it, you cannot get the buy-in on the wholesale scale that you need to make it work. and even if you could, it would cost literally _millions_ of dollars to go back and do retrofitting, as carlo notes here, so all this ding-ding-dinging in my spam folder is just a bunch of people making a lot of noise about zilch. and i don't even have to read the spam for me to know it. and if you're not in my spam folder, and you say i'm wrong, let's hear your argument. i haven't smashed anything lately; i need the exercise... it won't work. there's nothing you can do to make it work. in the meantime, remember that the measly 30,000 books from project gutenberg pale in comparison when stacked next to the millions and millions and millions of books at google, and google doesn't have any problem at all when it comes to pointing to a particular page, thankyouverymuch... source=bookclip -bowerbird