If you pardon the pun, I'm torn on the pagination issue. The way reader software and formats actually work has a good deal of historic baggage. For example, lon

If you pardon the pun, I'm torn on the pagination issue. The way reader software and formats actually work has a good deal of historic baggage. For example, long ago when system resources were limited, it made a lot of sense to only do the calculations to render one "page" of data at a time. Even though those limitations no longer exist, reader software (and file formats) was still originally designed to leverage single page/screen loading. You can see the artifacts of this history in most PDF readers as the "Continuous View" or similar viewing options. Similarly, a good deal of reader software and formats are designed for the sake of printing out paper hard copies, so you'll still have some degree of pagination displayed on-screen even when there is no intention of printing to paper. Another part of the pagination problem is simply skeuomorphism in the design of reader software and related file formats. The "page" and "book" metaphor was just too useful to ignore when creating electronic documents for the general public which (originally) had no idea how computers really worked. BTW, you might also enjoy this study: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8850340 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8850340