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Originally Posted by dmaul1114
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.
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They need to display in that way to make sense to you, perhaps. I may want them to display in a different form to make sense to me. Perhaps I like my figures to be visible only as a hypertext link with alternate text, which pops up in a separate window when I click the link. Maybe I like them much reduced as little thumbnails which zoom up when I roll over them. You (generic sense) don't know what I want, only I do. An ebook with straitjacketed, fixed pages only satisfies a portion of the readers. It greatly dissatisfies everyone else.
If you like a very traditional layout, good for you, set your device that way. (In practice, I'm not that far away from your preferences.) Where we split is the idea that pages are _necessary_. They're one way the reader may choose to display the information. Some readers may find them useless. I view them as optional.
WRT scrolling vs. paging, meh. Sometimes I do one, sometimes I do the other. No strong preference. Other people have expressed strong preferences. We all should be able to choose for ourselves.
Regards,
Jack Tingle