Not only that. It's pretty much impossible to see where you are in the text. If one is going to get rid of scrolling, it should be replaced by something better. I just find this to be unusable.

Am I alone in this, or are there actual arguments why paging is better than scrolling?

Page information on the bottom may help? Good point. Paging has its pros and cons. One feature that is not obvious is to bookmark or share the URL that has the location within the content. (Though anchor may do the similar thing).

The URL has all the location information if that is of any value. Thanks.

I understand that some hint of usage must be there. Anyway, please use keyboard from your desktop. left/right/pgup/pgdn.

Took me a while to figure out what was going on.

Right. it is pathetic that the service doesn't hint the user what to do. Will improve it.

Thanks.