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Originally Posted by K-Thom
Ahi, how many pages does a scroll have? Usually they were only used on one side, so the answer would be "one".
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scroll#Structure
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A scroll is usually divided up into pages, which are sometimes separate sheets of papyrus or parchment glued together at the edges, or may be marked divisions of a continuous roll of writing material. The scroll is usually unrolled so that one page is exposed at a time, for writing or reading, with the remaining pages rolled up to the left and right of the visible page.
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Originally Posted by K-Thom
You're asking for counterarguments, but you don't give any real argument why you want/need/expect page numbers.
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Page numbers are an invention of printers and publishers, not of authors and readers.
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I do not give arguments out of politeness and not wanting to turn this thread into the sporadically aggressive and confrontational playground that "PDF is not an eBook format" has been.
On the other hand, Jellby has stated why he prefers pages to the scroll.
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Originally Posted by nboshart
The only time I would say that having ebook 'pages' is better is with poetry where each passage has a break.
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That's an interesting point. I wonder to what extent this has been managed to poetry that is far less regular (and possibly more complicated in terms of layout) than Dante's inferno or Shakespeare's sonnets.
- Ahi