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Originally Posted by ekbell
In my browsing through high school and elementary school textbooks, I've found (aside from the occasional open access text) that facing pages often look to be designed as a unit taking advantage of the full width of the text with tight integration of main text, images, diagrams and textboxes. This makes them particularly ill-designed for ebook format, including PDF's where information is given at most one page at a time.
It is no surprise that student reading such a text on a screen would have problems retaining as much as a student reading the text as it was designed to be read.
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PDF reading programs can usually display multiple pages together. For those that can, showing facing pages together is easy, so you could read PDFs as intended if you wanted to. Of course, you would also need a display that is capable of showing the two pages together.