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Subject:Re: General writing question From:Tony Chung <tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca> To:Julia Land <scribejulia -at- gmail -dot- com> Date:Thu, 26 Jan 2017 13:09:51 -0800
Sidebar: When the washing machine at my wife's workplace had a problem, I
searched for the solution on my iPhone. The printed documentation was
useless to me. Within 10 minutes I had the washing machine back up and
running in no time.
Print documents don't have an intuitive search feature, nor do they benefit
from crowdourcing.
-Tony
On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 11:06 AM, Julia Land <scribejulia -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> I, for one, don't want to go online when I have a question about a setting
> on my new washing machine. There may be many reasons to create paper
> documents.
>
> Julia
>
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