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Originally Posted by Teyrnon
Could you elaborate on this declaration a little? The main advantage of books over scrolls that I know of are physical. It's easier to flip a book open to a page than it is to roll a scroll over to the right position. A book allows for more varied reading positions than a scroll. A book can be much longer than a scroll and still be comfortably read.
None of these things would seem to apply to ebooks.
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Actually, since apparently
scrolls have pages too, my comparison makes less sense than I initially thought... while my questioning of the presumed discarding of the page paradigm probably makes even more sense... pages having been seen useful and/or necessary even before scrolls became books.
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