On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Travis Siegel <tsiegel@softcon.us> wrote:
>
> Page numbers aren't the only method of marking off measurable sections of text.  They just make the most sense when you're dealing with physical materials that are laid out in page form.  When books were nothing but rolls of parchment tied up with ribbon, page numbers were not the method used to refer to passages of text.

Why not? And what do you suppose was the method then?


Most of the scrolls I've seen are written in pages in this format:

 
O---------------------------------O
| ------  -----  ----- ----- ----- \
| ------  -----  ----- ----- ----- /
| ------  -----  ----- ----- ----- \
O-----------------------------------O

and something like page numbers would have been almost necessary with only linear access.