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Originally Posted by jupstin
I only mean that I think it's possible that one day "pages" won't be all that common, and I could imagine a scenario where people who have never picked up a book and turned a physical page still use the word "page" without necessarily understanding the etymology of the word: Like "horsepower."
I'd say it's safe to imagine a time in the not too distant future where the word "page" is primarily used to refer to what is visible on a screen at a given time and not what is written on physical paper. In fact, with the ubiquitous use of the term "web page," we may be there already.
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I'm willing to agree that it is an interesting analogy. But personally I find the notion that "pages" are somehow not relevant (or rather that they shouldn't and will permanently cease to be relevant) to eBooks to be naïve.
Books with pages are superior to scrolls for reasons that go beyond physicalities, and an eBook without pages is an eScroll... in my mind, a distinct step backwards.
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