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The immediately-obvious drawback to this is large-scale mental inertia. Hand a stack of paper numbered like this to an average person and they'll ask you to re
by RankingMember 6y ago
The immediately-obvious drawback to this is large-scale mental inertia. Hand a stack of paper numbered like this to an average person and they'll ask you to re-print it out the "normal" way. It's the same problem we see with the Dvorak keyboard. A "good enough" method exists (QWERTY, numbering pages one at a time), so the effort willing to be expended to change it falls far below the effort needed for wide-scale adoption.
Well, that, but also the whole "trend away from printed media" thing.
- nine_k 6y agoUnfortunately, many academic papers are rendered in such a way that reading them from a phone is painful, so printing is one way to make the text accessible away from a desktop. Another reason is that many people need paper to underline, mark, jot and otherwise annotate the text while reading, to understand it properly. It's still easiest to do on paper.