[Kisil]

I imagine it's also for tracking how far through the article readers get. That would be useful feedback for the writer: "Katy, you lost 44% of the audience after page three..."

[moultano]

At the risk of making that statistic _dramatically_ worse. . .

Heisen-audience-loss-tracking I suppose.

[ek]

Seriously. I skipped to page 6 simply because I didn't want to keep clicking next, next, next.