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Old 01-10-2012, 08:39 AM   #86
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It is not a question of if or how "screen pages" could be implemented, but rather why. What value for the broad consumer base other than helping cling to an inapplicable metaphor?
And let us not forget that the early eBook readers, such as the Sony PRS-500, did display a screen count as a page number. But as reading devices evolved, people realised that they weren't terribly useful, and moved to other, more useful, methods of displaying the position in a book.
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