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Originally Posted by ahi
Sounds like you prefer scrolling text because eBook makers do not properly typeset their products. 
- Ahi |
That too, but that's not it.
If there's a back-and-forth dialogue of eight short lines of text, I'd prefer not to have four of them on one page and four on the next. This isn't a widow/orphan problem; it's a limitation of pages. I'd certainly prefer not to have one line at the bottom of a page, and the next seven lines on the next page--and while typesetting could fix that, it could only do so by having more empty space on the page; there are limits to how much variation in content amount a page should have. (Throw one line to next page: easy; fix the leading a bit. Throw four lines to next page? Erm, now the page is going to look substantially empty.)
If there's a 300-word paragraph, I'd prefer it all be on a single page, not half on one page and half on the next. Especially if it's a paragraph of some complexity that I'll want to pause and absorb, as in detailed nonfiction writing.
Scrolling lets me keep like content together much more than page breaks do.