[Air-L] Citing from a Kindle

Peter Timusk ptimusk at sympatico.ca
Tue Jan 4 08:25:43 PST 2011


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
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[mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Gilbert B. Rodman
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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








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