I propose that the problem isn't pages in and of themselves but their high frequency. You are correct that having a 10 item list spread out over 5 pages is excessive and annoying but a 25 paragraph /interesting/ article on one page is a bit long.

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September 23rd, 2010 at 3:09PM

I propose that the problem isn’t pages in and of themselves but their high frequency. You are correct that having a 10 item list spread out over 5 pages is excessive and annoying but a 25 paragraph /interesting/ article on one page is a bit long.

A 25-paragraph spread out over five or six pages is still long. It just seems shorter because we can see less of it at once.

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