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There's a lot of anti-sidescrolling sentiment in this thread... which I find odd considering how common place sideways gestures are on touchscreen devices.

I'd say that sideways scrolling has a big future ahead of it and in a lot of cases is better than having to press prev-next buttons.

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Gestures are one thing, scrolling is another. To get a look at the immense difference in usability, check out an app like flipboard vs feedly, one uses vertical-scrolling and the other uses side-scrolling. I very much prefer the vertical scrolling, but I won't speak for everyone, just giving an example to try out.

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