Perhaps a place to start is with this idea that scrolling is the bane of modern computing.
It's based on a faulty premise.
I mean, if our purpose were to reproduce the effect of an ancient scroll, then some kind of scrolling would be called for. This, however, is only infrequently our purpose. (Perhaps a case could be made for making it more frequently our purpose.)
The faulty premise is that pages have no defined dimensions. The faulty premise is that the dimensions of a page are unimportant ... to ... the page's purpose.
The book didn't replace the scroll for no reason at all. It's very easy to find a particular place in a book, and very difficult to find a particular place in a scroll.
Today we can get e-books, which are books that have been turned into scrolls, which is just silly. (We're so grateful for the books that we let the matter pass, but then we find that the solution just isn't workable. And we can't get e-books that haven't been turned into scrolls.)
