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Sometime in the future ebooks will inevitably abandon the codex paradigm completely. For example, most e-readers today still present text in the form of pages
by jvandonsel 15y ago
Sometime in the future ebooks will inevitably abandon the codex paradigm completely. For example, most e-readers today still present text in the form of pages that require turning. This is a familiar model for book readers, but is a bit awkward when reading linear text. One ends up flipping back and forth between two pages (electronic or paper) when a complex sentence or paragraph spans the page boundary.
A more natural model might be that of single continuous page (a la scroll), maybe with controls to slide the text up a bit as you read. Of course this model is available on the web and on platforms like Adobe, but the hardware readers (Kindle, Nook) still use the page paradigm.
- Fargren 15y agoThis is for battery performance reasons, not because it's familiar to book readers. An e-ink display only needs to consume battery when the image it's displayng changes. If you scroll, you refresh the whole page and you only show up one new line of text. For the same cost of batery, you can turn the page and display a whole new page. Scrolling is ridiculously wasteful on e-ink.