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This was an annoyance for me, until I started using AutoPager. If you use Firefox, I highly recommend it: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4925
This was an annoyance for me, until I started using AutoPager. If you use Firefox, I highly recommend it: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4925
I like it too but liked it more when I turned off the spam it adds to google results
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Have you thought about whether removing the pagination would cause an even high percentage of your readers to read the full article? And if the percentage who click to page two is in fact so large, have you considered how much more satisfied those same visitors would be if you removed an obstacle that so many of them confront every time they read an article?
By default we do not paginate, but sometimes I think it makes sense. Personally, I don't like the way it looks when there is very long text on a single page. All the navigation links at the top and sides are scrolled way off the screen and the user is adrift in sea of text. (I admit part of this is a limitation in our design. Perhaps all the blocks of HTML in the sidebar should repeat for the full length of the page?…
Actually, a bigger problem is wanting to follow a link in the middle of a long story after you finished the story. Maybe people should copy links that appear within a story at the top or bottom of the page so a reader doesn't have to go scrolling back through the story to find it again.
Pagination breaks my articles in Instapaper, making it even more horrible: start reading an article on the train only to realize there's no page 2.
Fortunately most sites have a "print" view of their articles that puts it all in a single page that works fine with InstaPaper.
A one-size-fits all design philosophy generally fails... But it doesn’t really work as well as you had hoped because only a tiny percentage of viewers will actually read page two. Uh, perhaps only the same tiny-or-not percentage who go to page two will page down to the bottom of a long one page article. But breaking up the page, you can tell who's seeing what. Real print magazines would make things more straight forw…