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Originally Posted by issybird
Reading this thread does make me wonder how the vernacular police get through their day. They must be in a constant state of outrage, what with dialing a phone number, rolling down a car window and so forth.
Even as I type this message, I wonder, "Where's the type?" Shh! I don't want them to come after me.
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This got me to reexamine things and... I think I don't dislike the idea of one screen = one page so much any more. Because "a page" is not the text; it's the paper itself. For example, old school dot matrix printers printed 66 lines per page where a "page" is a sheet of 8.5x11" paper. Put the same sheet in a laser printer and you can get fewer than 1 line per page with extremely large point sizes to hundreds of lines per page if you reduce the point size enough.
I still don't like the idea of applying physical print skeuomorphism to ebooks, but if the metaphor is going to be forced then one screen = one page is the closest possible analogue to the physical.