I'm not totally convinced. Our brains are designed for perceiving a physical, spatial world, and pages provide standardised physical chunks of a reasonable gr

I'm not totally convinced. Our brains are designed for perceiving a physical, spatial world, and pages provide standardised physical chunks of a reasonable granularity. I think that's useful. You can know that a certain scene was about 5 pages back. You know roughly how much further forwards 20 pages of text is.