so i realized that you clicked on this thread to tell me that I misspelled cite, but now that you are here can you tell me what the MLA and APA formats are for the kindle? google gives me conflicting answers.

2/15/2011 4:01:25 PM

You misspelled cite.

2/15/2011 4:02:36 PM

Haha no idea...considering you can alter fonts and spacing there's no real way to narrow down your cite

2/15/2011 4:05:05 PM

http://www.geekosystem.com/kindle-page-numbers/

2/15/2011 4:06:19 PM

sure there is, locations (and the new version supports page numbers). i'm just not seeing a consensus on google.

2/15/2011 4:06:36 PM

Wish I could help, I'm reading all the comments on http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/how-do-you-cite-an-e-books-page-number/. It's a very interesting topic. I guess treat it just like an electronic file and say the date you found it and its location in the book?

2/15/2011 4:10:45 PM

Quote :

"You misspelled cite."

Correct reply would be: "Write down its GPS coordinates."

2/15/2011 4:11:30 PM

can't you just cite the hard copy version or are there book only available on Kindle?

sorry i'm a Kindle newb!

2/15/2011 4:11:41 PM

i don't want to have to go get a hard copy. i always can, but i have a bunch of academic sources on my kindle so if i just go get a hard copy this time i'll have the same problem next time i have to submit something.

2/15/2011 4:13:30 PM

I was wondering this the other day for the kindle app on an ipad. I bought one of my textbooks for the kindle and I can only cite the line, not an actual page number for an ipad. Everywhere I looked said that is not available for the app yet.

2/15/2011 4:14:17 PM

for the stuff i have that has page numbers i will just use those and pretend its a hard copy, but a few of them don't have page numbers associated with the kindle book

2/15/2011 4:16:48 PM

I always just use a rough estimate for page numbers. No one is really going to give a shit if its page 350 or 351.

2/15/2011 4:21:39 PM

site

2/15/2011 4:24:10 PM

^^ but if i only have a location?

2/15/2011 4:31:09 PM

Its approximate, yes, but if I'm throwing together a pitch book at 2 AM and want to "borrow" a couple thoughts, I'm going to cut a few corners. It'll probably catch up to me some day, but so far, so good.

2/15/2011 4:48:49 PM

Here's the website to build a cite from kindle.
http://www.bookmonk.com/labs/numbers.php

2/15/2011 7:17:09 PM