Scrolling Or Paging

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Dr. Drang:

The new version of iBooks allows you to read books in a continuous scroll instead of page by page. This has, surprisingly, set off an argument on which is the better way to read an ebook.

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I don’t get it. Paging is clearly an artifact of the technology of paper books, a technology I love deeply, but one that doesn’t make a lot of sense in an ebook reader.

I agree with Dr. Drang here. I was originally dubious to the idea of scrolling, having long used paging on the Kindle and in iBooks. After using iBooks for awhile on iPhone, I love the scrolling option - an outcome that shouldn’t have been surprising given that I use it in Instapaper.