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Originally Posted by Jellby
Even if you read a document by scrolling, take your typical webpage in a browser, you have a document with a given width (usually it fits in your window) and a large height. In the window you see only a portion of the total height of the document, and you can move this window (or the document) up and down with a scroll bar. Usually, the scroll bar represents the total 100% length of the document and the scroll button is positioned at the corresponding relative position of the window in the document, and sized also in proportion to the size of the window with respect to the total document length (if the window can show half the document, the button takes half the total scroll bar height).
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The real problem with these is academic citations. I had to use an online article recently for a publication, and needed several direct quotes from it and it was a real pain as APA citations require citing the paragraph number for quotes from an online document.
So I had to print it out and go through and number all the paragraphs. So any kind of non-paginated format is going to cause citation issues without some kind of universal location indicator standards (like the Kindles) etc. that can be cited in scholarly works.