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Nice book, but I can't stand this sort of presentation. One tiny morsel per page, with hundreds of clicks to get through it all. A lot of people who make online FAQs are also guilty of this.

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List of 100 things on 100 different pages rather than a single page of text. Click to continue.

Though usually this sort of time-wasting is driven by advertisement impressions.

It's an extremely old-fashioned style of web design, back when bandwidth was low and webmasters split content across multiple pages, so as to increase load times by placing a lot of text and images into a single page.

Completely unnecessary in this day and age, 3G is slowest wireless network still in use, and can easily serve text and images quickly.

Even in the 90s when connections were super slow, I've always disagreed with this mantra. Firstly, even if the whole page takes long to load, the browser will display the start of the page exactly as quickly as it would if the page ended there. (Give or take.) Secondly, splitting into multiple pages prevents me from loading it in a background tab and reading it later.

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