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Originally Posted by ahi
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.
- Ahi |
Certainly scrolls have pages. Their primary disadvantage is that they are like cassette tapes compared to CD-ROMs; they don't support "random access" to an arbitrary page and, after you've finished reading it, you have to wind it back to the beginning for the next reader.
If you read Latin literature as I do, you'll find all sorts of "moans" about the rudeness of people who don't rewind their scrolls after they've finished with them!