May be you could just google "the impossible science of the individual,"? that's a joke btw but suggests scholarship may be changing. Peter Timusk B.Math statistics. BA legal studies Legal studies of the Information Age Vice President Computers for Communites School work blog http://notebook.webpagex.org Some papers www.webpagex.org -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Gilbert B. Rodman Sent: January-04-11 11:12 AM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Citing from a Kindle More to the point, that same passage will be much more difficult to locate in a 350-page book. And a shorter phrase may not be possible to locate at all without actually reading the cited work straight through from start to finish. To use a real example, if all an author tells you about the phrase, "the impossible science of the individual," is that it comes from Roland Barthes' /Camera Lucida/, you're probably not going to want to skim through the entire book to figure out where (or even if) that six-word phrase appears ... especially since, as far as I can tell from actually trying to chase down those words on the basis of a page-free citation, they dont appear in Barthes' text at all. cheers gil