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Design Debate – Paging versus Scrolling
Read a recent Times article where it was discussing whether ‘page-turning’ is still relevant on electronic devices. Some quoted in the article suggested that page turning was less preferable than scrolling. They would be wrong. The page turning is essential for me to enjoy reading on a digital device. I wrote last year about my frustration with reading longer stories on the web because of how awkward scrolling is. To expand that point I really feel that page turning has many advantages. The most obvious is the inherent ‘memory’ that paging creates — it is easy for a reader to remember where they were, if interrupted, especially in an office…