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		_csoo on June 14, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Textbooks must die The reason you prefer paper over PDF is because PDF merely imitates paper.

sketerpot on June 14, 2009 [–]

I prefer hypertext over both of them, especially now that we all have tabbed browsers. There's a reason why people will voluntarily spend hours learning things from Wikipedia.

http://xkcd.com/214/

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