"1. Do we have an approved and sensible citation style for GB?
The point is that some people simply paste in the very long GB URL for a page. I tend to do the other thing, which is to treat it no differently from a book I have open in front of me."
You do both.
As I understand it , the standard way at WP of citing anything from GNews and the like, which I think applies to GBooks also, is to cite the actual published work as an ordinary book, including the page number, and then add the link as a convenience link in the for [http: whatever Google Books]. The cite books template also has a place to do it.
The rationale is that it is absolutely essential to give a source that can be used in a library by anyone to obtain the book either there or via interlibrary loan. It's also necessary though to say where you actually found the reference--hence the link to GBooks. All such refs to the Googles and similar convenience links, such as Proquest and Lexis and JSTOR ) need to be checked and if necessary upgraded.
David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG
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