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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
And yet not confusing compared to all paper books in existence where horizontal motions turn pages. If you are seriously claiming that it is more intuitive to swipe vertically to turn pages -- perhaps you are a time traveller from the age of papyrus scrolls?
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Even papyrus scrolls were scrolled horizontally, not vertically. A scroll consisted of pages stitched or glued side by side, not top to bottom.
This is what an Egyptian scroll looks like:
It's written in columns from top to bottom, with the columns themselves being read from right to left (just like modern Japanese). So when you're reading it, you unroll the scroll in your left hand, and roll it up in your right hand. No vertical scrolling
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