[EL] Kindle citation format

[Beth Kingsley]

But what a hassle, if it's more than one book. And what if the book is only available on Kindle? Some of them are set up to tell you the corresponding page of the print edition, but if not the only choice would be to cite the Kindle location or to find a hard copy (or image) and track down the page in that. A rather unsatisfactory result.

On the other hand, it does seem odd to cite to a proprietary format that wouldn't be accessible to someone who has a paper copy or different e-book version and wants to check your cite.

It will be interesting to see how the Bluebook or other authorities address this question.

Beth

From: Tara Ross [mailto:tara at taraross.com]
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2012 9:07 PM
To: Abigail Thernstrom
Cc: Beth Kingsley; law-election at uci.edu
Subject: RE: [EL] Kindle citation format

Oh, I meant whatever book David is reading.....Maybe he can just cite the print edition (via Google books) instead of figuring out a Kindle citation format.


From: Abigail Thernstrom [mailto:abigail.thernstrom at gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2012 6:01 PM
To: Tara Ross
Cc: Beth Kingsley; law-election at uci.edu<mailto:law-election at uci.edu>
Subject: Re: [EL] Kindle citation format


            Yes, there is a print edition of my book, Voting Rights -- & Wrongs, which has footnotes that cite the Kindle edition of sources I used.

            Abby Thernstrom

Abigail Thernstrom
Vice-chair, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
Adjunct Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
www.thernstrom.com<http://www.thernstrom.com>


On Dec 7, 2012, at 6:30 PM, Tara Ross wrote:

Is there not a print edition of the book?  You can often find the print edition in Google books.  Even if you don't want to buy it there, I've gotten enough out of the free preview to get a page number on several occasions.

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On Dec 7, 2012, at 4:50 PM, "Abigail.thernstrom at gmail.com<mailto:Abigail.thernstrom at gmail.com>" <abigail.thernstrom at gmail.com<mailto:abigail.thernstrom at gmail.com>> wrote:
I gave Kindle citations in my 2009 book on the Voting Rights Act, providing title, pub date, and location.

AT
Abigail Thernstrom
Vice-chair, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
Adjunct Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
www.thernstrom.com<http://www.thernstrom.com/>

On Dec 7, 2012 , at 5:17 PM, Beth Kingsley <bkingsley at harmoncurran.com<mailto:bkingsley at harmoncurran.com>> wrote:
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> [mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] On Behalf Of David A. Schultz
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2012 5:12 PM
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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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