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Counter examples can be found all over the internet (e.g. many gnu manuals have the option to show all information in a single HTML page, quite a few Gutenberg books are in a single HTML file).

(I'm wondering if you think the objection is to scrolling, it's not, there is a difference between a long page with scroll bars that give an indication on how far you are on the page, and infinite scrolling where the page gets longer each time you read the end of the page)



Obviously you can make a single large page. We don't call that a book, but a page. A book is a collection of pages.

From dictionary, book: "a written or printed work consisting of pages glued or sewn together along one side and bound in covers."


A book page is clearly a different concept to a web page, despite the similar name. I'm not sure what your point is.




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