Web pages can scroll horizontally and vertically. This allows for a certain amount of graceful degradation when an image or table is too big for the size of the browser window, or when text passages extend beyond the edge of a page. But scrolling also makes reading more difficult than page-turning does.
eBook text lines always break when they reach the edge of the right page margin. And graphics that are too large to fit on the page in either dimension are shrunk to the largest possible size that can fit on the page without being truncated. In many cases, images are moved to the next page for a better fit.
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