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title: "PDF Manuals: The Wrong Paradigm for an Online Experience"
date: 2009-06-28
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# PDF Manuals: The Wrong Paradigm for an Online Experience

[PDF Manuals: The Wrong Paradigm for an Online Experience](http://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2008/11/pdf-manuals-the-wrong-paradigm-for-an-online-experience.php) This is definitely one of the must-read posts of the week. In it, Michael Hughes argues that the PDF manual is a relic from another format (the book) and has no real place on the web as the only form of documentation.