Reader Recent: Pad out pagination to allow page select to work

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Related to https://github.com/Automattic/loop/issues/238

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• Have you written new tests for your changes?
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[matticbot]

Here is how your PR affects size of JS and CSS bundles shipped to the user's browser:

Sections (~278 bytes added 📈 [gzipped])

name                             parsed_size           gzip_size
reader                                +636 B  (+0.0%)     +278 B  (+0.1%)
plugins                               +372 B  (+0.0%)     +185 B  (+0.0%)
jetpack-cloud-plugin-management       +372 B  (+0.0%)     +185 B  (+0.0%)
home                                  +372 B  (+0.0%)     +185 B  (+0.0%)
write-flow                            +304 B  (+0.0%)     +170 B  (+0.1%)
site-blocks                           +304 B  (+0.0%)     +170 B  (+0.1%)
link-in-bio-tld-flow                  +304 B  (+0.0%)     +170 B  (+0.0%)
build-flow                            +304 B  (+0.0%)     +170 B  (+0.1%)

Sections contain code specific for a given set of routes. Is downloaded and parsed only when a particular route is navigated to.

Async-loaded Components (~170 bytes added 📈 [gzipped])

name                                                     parsed_size           gzip_size
async-load-design-blocks                                      +304 B  (+0.0%)     +170 B  (+0.0%)
async-load-calypso-components-web-preview-component           +304 B  (+0.1%)     +170 B  (+0.1%)
async-load-calypso-blocks-support-article-dialog-dialog       +304 B  (+0.3%)     +170 B  (+0.6%)

React components that are loaded lazily, when a certain part of UI is displayed for the first time.

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What is parsed and gzip size?

Parsed Size: Uncompressed size of the JS and CSS files. This much code needs to be parsed and stored in memory.
Gzip Size: Compressed size of the JS and CSS files. This much data needs to be downloaded over network.

Generated by performance advisor bot at iscalypsofastyet.com.

[matticbot]

This PR modifies the release build for the following Calypso Apps:

For info about this notification, see here: PCYsg-OT6-p2

• notifications
• wpcom-block-editor

To test WordPress.com changes, run install-plugin.sh $pluginSlug fix/reader-recent-pagination on your sandbox.