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It depends on the content. Reading a web page is different than reading a book. I prefer pagination on a longer text that is meant to be read linearly but scro
by bhaak 11y ago
It depends on the content. Reading a web page is different than reading a book.
I prefer pagination on a longer text that is meant to be read linearly but scrolling and scanning for a typical web page text.
But then I also prefer pagination on devices that actually are meant for it. Reading a book on a laptop screen is an inferior experience to reading it on paper or at least on a dedicated hardware e-book reader.
Jakob Nielsen's AlertBox columns suggest the same thing:
http://www.nngroup.com/articles/how-users-read-on-the-web/ http://www.nngroup.com/articles/how-users-read-on-the-web/
http://www.nngroup.com/articles/f-shaped-pattern-reading-web-content/ http://www.nngroup.com/articles/f-shaped-pattern-reading-web...
http://www.nngroup.com/articles/website-reading/ http://www.nngroup.com/articles/website-reading/
Nevertheless, your experiment looks good although I had to make my browser windows smaller. Before I only saw one page because there is not enough text to trigger pagination.