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		runn1ng on July 3, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Current draft of The Art of Computer Programming p... I vastly prefer HTML with searchable text, easy copy-pasting capability, easy indexability, etc. to PDF with its outdated printed-page metaphor. On the other hand, it's Knuth and TAOCP, so I can't really complain much.

jimhefferon on July 3, 2015 | [–]

HTML (that is, widely-available browsers) can't be trusted to break equations well.

justwannasing on July 3, 2015 | [–]

Better for you. Not better if you're writing and publishing a book.

runn1ng on July 4, 2015 | [–]

That's a good point.

Books.... that's what our forefathers used in the distant past, right.

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