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Old 09-29-2009, 09:33 PM   #37
CleverClothe
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Originally Posted by dmaul1114 View Post
Which is fine for leisure reading, or any books that are just plain text.

Not so much for text books, academic books, scholarly articles etc. where figures and tables need to display a certain way to make sense, be on the same page as the text that relates to them etc.
Ah, but in a scrolling environment, everything is on the same page! No more "I'm going to refer to a figure that is too big to fit next to the text that it goes with, so you have to keep flipping pages back and forth. Ha ha!"

I would prefer a scrolling environment (and a device fast enough to support it!) for all the reasons Elfwreck gave, and maybe more. Maybe with a shortcut function to display the next screen full, because that is a handy feature at times. Just like your browser does scrolling, but you can also use the "Page Up" and "Page Down" keys. I read my web content without having to page, well mostly. And I want everything else the same way.
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