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Originally Posted by MGlitch
Because honestly the sooner we divorce ebooks from mirroring physical books the better IMO. It’s like transitioning from scrolls to bound books, the convention used to measure length doesn’t apply anymore. Fortunately we don’t still measure books as being inches or feet long.
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It's interesting that you mention scrolls because scrolls are a closer physical analogue to ebooks than bound, square cut sheaves of paper. In fact, we use a verbified form of the word to denote the moving of text across a display. Of course, measuring ebooks in terms of inches makes about as much sense as measuring them in terms of pages.
Newspaper columns in the US are measured in inches.