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I don't think the final edition is going to be made by going to Export To PDF in Google Docs. He seems to be mostly using it as a paste dump, then refining it into chapters, dumping it down, formatting slowly. For that, Google Docs really seems as good as any, no?

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I don't know. Google Docs is a linear tool for linear text, mostly. But the process you describe is anything but linear - it resembles a slow conversion from an unstructured mess to a final text. Intuitively, there seems to be a mismatch between that process and a classic word processor.

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