[EL] Kindle citation format

Fri Dec 7 14:44:48 PST 2012

[Looks up from revising a Supreme Court brief] Why is this not 18.1.4? It's a book, right? Author, Name, Year. Under Blue Book Rule 15, that's all you need with a book. With a parallel citation "permissible" using "available at" under 18.1.4. As Beth says, use the location you found the book, so others can too. If there's no date on the web address version, you have to add "last checked on".  

E.g.: David Schultz, Can You Help Me? The Secret Life of Ballot Initiative Circulators, (2012), 123-24 available at: http://self-publishyourownbookforfree.com/paid/schultz/can-you-help-me.pdf (last checked on Dec. 7, 2012).  

[returns to brief, grumbling about printers and their arcane Joint Appendix files] 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Beth Kingsley <bkingsley at harmoncurran.com>
To: David A. Schultz <dschultz at gw.hamline.edu>; law-election <law-election at uci.edu>
Sent: Fri, Dec 7, 2012 5:21 pm
Subject: Re: [EL] Kindle citation format

I don’t know if it is accepted or if there is an accepted citation format, but a book I was reading recently cited to a Kindle book using the Kindle location(s). So long as you publication date or year, you’re referring to the same version and the locations will be consistent across platforms, so that makes sense. Although it’s not transferable to other formats, which is arguably problematic.

Beth

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From: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu [mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] On Behalf OfDavid A. Schultz
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2012 5:12 PM
To: law-election at uci.edu
Subject: [EL] Kindle citation format

Hi all:

I am finishing an article on ballot initiatives and want to cite to a book I have on Kindle.  I cannot find a Bluebook suggestion for how to do this, does anyone know the rule for it?

Thank you.

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