Don't fix what wasn't broken — the friction might be load-bearing

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The default move when building a digital reader is to strip every friction the print book had: auto-scroll, infinite pagination, elided chapter boundaries. But each of these 'fixes' a problem that lived in the substrate (paper, glue, weight), not in the affordance.

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