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The article reports on online reading and note-taking. Early advocates of digital documents were sure that it was just a matter of time before paper as a reading material would become obsolete. The author states that his experience as a heavy user of information from digital, Web-based sources is the opposite. He often judges the potential of the source on a first impression or an abstract on screen, but when he decides to read a document in more detail, he prints it out. One of the characteristics of the reading-to-write process that participants commented on extensively was annotation and note-taking.