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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
But with an ebook, a page/screen is a moving target. It's fluid... not always the same. So what's the point of trying to tag it with static properties?—other than dogma and paradigm, of course.
Yes the ebook is the evolution of the book. And "The page" is an evolved book's appendix. It might hang about, but what the heck does it really do?
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Utter nonsense.
Saying the 'page' is some sort out outdated relic of paper books is silly when we're talking about the Kindle, which divides text into screens, which work the same way as pages.
YES, we should not let ebooks be held back by the limitations of paper books, but we should not expect all aspects of the paper book - a very established and successful technology - to go away simply because there are other ways of doing things.
You try to make this issue out to be something along the lines of readers complaining that they miss the smell of paper. The issue is that Amazon has made their e-reader worse at tracking reading location and progress than a 400-year-old paper book, and not because the technology has limitations, but because they are trying too hard to reinvent the wheel.