IBook Doesn't "Feel" Like A Book

So played around with iBooks Author for the last few hours and I've come to the conclusion the iBook doesn't feel like a book.
Where is the standard book "layout"??
You get a page of text and when you get to the bottom you "turn/flip" the page?  I really not like this whole scroll through your chapters/pages.
I do like the interactive parts, like adding a video, it's rather cool, but still like the old feel of the epubs.
Will this come? Is it there and I've overlooked it??

It's a new world. You used to have a book, now you have an ibook. That i makes all the difference, that and electronic circuitry and electricity. We no longer read, we interact. We used to hold a book and turn pages, now we drag and swipe our fingers over a glass plate. What we see and hear, and how our brain processes it, is a new experience for us. Evolution progresses. It's a new world.

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