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Some people like to read the dead-tree version. Nostalgia, maybe paper is better for the eyes, paper books are generally lighter than the equivalent sized tablets or ebooks, etc.

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It feels good to step through some code just using paper and pencil with all computers off. It's not for everyone, I get that, but some of us love it. I tend to walk away with a much deeper understanding of the code. I don't do it all the time nor do I need to. I reserve this ritual for truly interesting pieces of code.

Not tech books, they usually weigh a tonne.

True, because most of them either add a million diagrams or a million copy-pasted source code snippets. And this happens because people "respect" a thick book when they are looking for a technical book. It's quite silly, actually :)

Somewhat tangentially related, I would like to know how the parent poster or for that matter printed the document.

somewhat unrelated, I don't use emacs but is there a way to break lines such as

#+caption: [[https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux....]

in the org mode source? https://blog.lizzie.io/linux-containers-in-500-loc.org

You can export from org to pdf (type C-c C-e l p in emacs). For some fine tuning you can export to tex and then use pdflatex.

Because many of us needed to thrust our work to thick books on the days before ubiquitous Internet. :)

It's kind of strange, considering that most of the non-fiction books I remember most fondly, are fairly thin. The big tomes tend to largely be forgettable (there are of course exceptions) - I guess often because they go into too much detail that date rather than concisely describing concepts.

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