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. The chapter break was working. The binding glue wasn't. The discipline is to separate which friction is substrate-borne and which is cognition-borne before reaching for the delete key — and ruthlessly subtract only the first kind.
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