I agree that the default setting on the board has way too many page breaks. You can change the setting in your profile, I did this when I first joined the board. I have no idea what the max is, but change your settings to show the max posts per page and it achieves an effect that is similar to what you are looking for.
I routinely find threads with references to multiple pages as one page. The only downside though is that the page references people make don't translate.