In hindsight, I can see I overreacted and apologise for that. It was a bad day for several reasons and those reasons really would "bore" you
I just felt that for an established member such as yourself to be, as you yourself admitted, deliberately obtuse in reply to a new member's first post seemed a bit, well, spiteful, to be honest. It seemed, to me anyway, to constitute a concerted efford to ridicule me for not knowing the difference between a web page and a website and not knowing that there are several types of scrolling.
I am not a software designer like yourself and, as a layman, have only ever seen scrolling, in a computing context anyway, refer to text moving up or down (or perhaps, but rarely, sideways...) and the next lines of text appearing at one end as the same amount of text disappears at the opposite end. This has always been my experience of scrolling on web pages/sites, using either a mouse wheel on a PC or, in this case, swiping your finger up or down on the iPad screen.
I presumed it would be the same with the majority of users and, as a result, forum members would understand my request irrelevant of whether I had used the correct technological terms or not. It was not until I downloaded and tested KyBook that I saw that scrolling could, according to the developers of that app anyway, just mean vertical page-turning which, in my eyes, is not the same as scrolling.
This is what I meant by "proper scrolling". I used the word "proper" as a direct result of my annoyance at finding that KyBook's scrolling was actually just page turning in a different direction.
I'm sorry if I replied with even heavier sarcasm with my quoting of the dictionary definition of scrolling in a computing context etc but, as you say, you were purposely obtuse so, of course, I felt obliged to respond in kind.
I just think you could be a bit more understanding of people who have less knowledge than yourself of things such as operating systems, viewports (I don't even know what a viewport is..), input devices etc. If I used the wrong term then you can therefore deduce from my post that I'm not as qualified as you on the subject and take that into account when replying.
While I can see that this is now a pretty pointless thread overall since I gathered the information I was looking for from Valkrider a long time ago, I just feel that, since you obviously, and admittedly, did know exactly what I meant in the first place, you were actually more interested in ridiculing someone else's lack of knowledge in a particular area of expertise in an effort to egotistically display your own expertise in said area and impress others rather than trying to just answer the question. We all have an ego so I obviously understand the inclination and have been known to be intellectually vain myself in the past, but such psychological sparring would be far more suited to an advanced software development forum than in reply to a noob's first post on a forum about reading books, wouldn't it?
I realise I've been overly verbose on the matter, but I got carried away and started enjoying it once I got typing so just couldn't stop.
Anyway, hopefully we can just forget it. I came for an answer to a question and now have it. I shall now go and see if Gerty does "proper scrolling"!
P.S. No, I don't attach my mouse to my iPad! Is it even possible??
Cheers