Need e-Book item type

Zotero REALLY needs to add an e-Book item type as well as a "location" (e.g., loc. 245) type instead of page number or section number for in-text citations. Perhaps this has been discussed elsewhere but I can't find the discussion, and I just wanted to see what the chances are that you might add this? APA's style blog suggests a very different format for Kindle books than paper books, and it would be hard to implement this manually while still really getting the benefit of using Zotero.
  • For the time being, you should be able to do quite well by including e-reader version into the Extra field using
    medium: Kindle e-reader
    and putting the location, including loc., into a suffix for the citation. If you do want to include the Amazon information, add Amazon.com in the URL field.

    I'm not fully convinced we do want an e-book item type. We definitely want some way to add locations for e-books in citations (though we'd want to make sure that's not tied to a particular format) and we'd want the "Medium" field to be included in the book item type, but a separate item type does have significant downsides (starting with the fact that we'd have to account for it in all citation styles).
  • Thank you! This is helpful.
  • And thank you for the super quick response.

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