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@histoftech I thought I was ride-or-die paper until I went to grad school for an MA a couple years back. Two huge things made me realise how important digital non-fiction documents had become. The first is best illustrated by the first image. Horizontal four-page spreads were life-changing for me. The second is that I could quickly grab plain text out of e-book formats. I'd name the PDFs or ePubs after the citation tag I used in BibTeX, pull out a plain-text version with the same name, and then use `ripgrep` to quickly search for half-remembered passages. The result is something like the second image. In a hurry I could quickly drop something like `NOTE: rg -i white.heat[Hicks2017]` in my document, and follow it up at leisure when I actually worked out where I wanted to weave your take on Wilson's policies into the narrative.