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Originally Posted by AnotherCat
Am actually surprised that many still read with vertical scroll given I would have thought they would have become used to the app horizontal paging behaviours on tablets/phones/ereaders. I gave up vertical scrolling somewhere back around 100BCE (some of what I read then has since been found in caves), well sometime before the conveniences of computer mice, PDAs, tablets and ereaders were bestowed upon us it seems about 2,000 years ago  . |
I suspect that most of those who miss the scrollbar didn't use it for reading a novel from beginning to end with vertical scroll. I know I didn't. It was essential for quick overview and for checking the layout and formatting (which I do with every book I purchase), though. For just reading I used the paging.
Not everyone used the viewer just for reading. When one wanted to check for various things in a book, it was often more efficient and faster to have the controls and the scrollbar at hand.