{"id":6466,"date":"2012-10-30T12:24:50","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T17:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=6466"},"modified":"2012-11-05T16:58:11","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T21:58:11","slug":"e-book-pagination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/30\/e-book-pagination\/","title":{"rendered":"E-book Pagination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elezea.com\/2012\/10\/ebook-pagination\/\">Rian van der Merwe<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.elezea.com\/2012\/10\/ebook-pagination\/\"><p>Scrolling is exhausting &mdash; it never ends. There is no sense of accomplishment. I once heard someone refer to infinite scrolling on websites as &ldquo;a game you can never win.&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I prefer pagination for a different reason. With scrolling, I feel like I have too much control. I constantly have to &ldquo;measure&rdquo; how far to scroll and make the proper precise movement. My eyes have to track the content as it moves. It&rsquo;s exhausting because of the concentration it requires compared with just pressing a button and having the right thing happen.<\/p>\n<p>Update (2012-11-01): <a href=\"http:\/\/ignorethecode.net\/blog\/2012\/11\/01\/pagination\/\">Lukas Mathis<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/ignorethecode.net\/blog\/2012\/11\/01\/pagination\/\"><p>If I&rsquo;m reading a novel, the experience I&rsquo;m having should be the book&rsquo;s story unfolding in my head, not my fingers scrolling the page every few seconds. In this case, good UX design means not interfering with the <em>actual<\/em> experience the user is having: the book&rsquo;s story.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Update (2012-11-05): <a href=\"http:\/\/ignorethecode.net\/blog\/2012\/11\/05\/more_on_pagination\/\">Lukas Mathis<\/a> responds to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leancrew.com\/all-this\/2012\/11\/scrolling-or-paging\/\">Dr. Drang<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/ignorethecode.net\/blog\/2012\/11\/05\/more_on_pagination\/\"><p>Look at iOS&rsquo;s home screen. There are pages of apps. You jump between pages, you don&rsquo;t scroll. Is the home screen&rsquo;s pagination an artifact of paper book technology, or is it simply a better idea than having a home screen that can be scrolled? I&rsquo;d argue that it&rsquo;s a better idea.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rian van der Merwe: Scrolling is exhausting &mdash; it never ends. There is no sense of accomplishment. I once heard someone refer to infinite scrolling on websites as &ldquo;a game you can never win.&rdquo; I prefer pagination for a different reason. With scrolling, I feel like I have too much control. I constantly have to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[166],"class_list":["post-6466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-ebooks"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6466"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6512,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6466\/revisions\/6512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}