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The professors I have known with text books for their own courses hate this, too. They would always put it on the board for the entire course how to translate page numbers given for the current edition of the book to page numbers for older pages. One in particular was like "Take the page number. Subtract the difference between the current version and your version. That's the page you need to start on"