After a few accumulated hours of reading, I realized something was awry in my head…I had no idea what page I was on, and barely knew what chapter I was in.
Why, you might ask?
Well, first off, the ability to alter the font size renders what most of us have considered a “page” for our entire lives obsolete. The page numbering shifts from how many words — or characters, spacing and formatting, really — fit on a printed or “fixed” amount of area into whatever *I*, as the reader, choose to fit on my screen, in portrait or landscape mode, with the click of a button or tap on a screen.
Pages: a concept changed forever? | tombiro.com
my favorite point that tom raises later is that a “page” might’ve shifted from being a controlled publisher mechanism to a user-defined “modal input.”
yeah, i just made “modal input” up.
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