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I recommend ditching the pseudo-book UX with a page that scrolls vertically (like the rest of the internet). Clicking to navigate through several pages reminds me of this tweet I saw the other day.

"I like this thing that I'm reading on this website, but I wish it was spread across more pages." –Nobody, Ever

Otherwise, looks great

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Definitely needs tweaking (use more of the blank space), but I disagree. Scrolling is much more difficult on the eyes, since you need to track the last line you read as it moves vertically. Do this 100 times in a row and it gets pretty annoying.

There was a really cool project a few months back of a variation of vertical scrolling, where the current page is "peeled" back revealing the next page from top to bottom.

The effect was you can read as you normally would but lines are stationary so you don't have to track them. You'd reset your eyes to the top of the page after finishing one. Not sure how I'd track it down sadly.

I believe this is the project you're referring to, though it's now integrated into an ebook reader web app: http://www.magicscroll.net/

You're thinking of magicScroll : http://www.magicscroll.net/ScrollTheWeb.html

I somewhat disagree. I don't like having to wait on page loads, but I much prefer the Kindle-style book scrolling (with no page loads) to vertical. If it doesn't have to load pages, book-style works better for my eyes. I believe there was a Show HN involving a plugin that did this that had some research on why it was preferable.

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