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It really depends on a content. It's impossible to have an actual document in html or plain text, because neither of these formats has well-defined page breaks. Usually there is an abstract published on a wobsite with a PDF file availible for download/purchase. (as harold remarked, page-breaks are irrelevant if we discuss electronic formats. Besides, we can print a document on a tape and it won't have page breaks anyway).
Reading a printed copy is the most natural and easy way to go, but if I had to choose an electronic format, it would be a LateX-generated PDF or at least a diligently formatted document made in a word processor.
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That doesn't make any sense. The page break requirement is something you just made up, and they are a bad thing anyway.
Having page breaks on a computer is like having lattice windows anno 2k+ - useless bits of interruption inserted in a medium that doesn't it, because it used to be that way before.
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harold aptroot wrote: The page break requirement is something you just made up,
You're right, and on the second thought it doesn't make sense. However, it's all about a definition of a "document". As Mark Wallace commented, one can differ "texts" from "documents". My thought on page-breaks was a step further in this differentiation.
harold aptroot wrote: Having page breaks on a computer is like having lattice windows anno 2k+ - useless bits of interruption inserted in a medium that doesn't it, because it used to be that way before
I agree with that. But in some scenarios I prefer printed documents anyway.
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The pictures are 80% of a good piece.
Apart from the caption, the text is just there to make it look smart ...
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The trouble with people,
is that they want to hear only what they want to hear.
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Anybody who has ever encountered the rules and convention of print layout, going back even before Gutenberg, knows how to make any text unreadable - or how to format it to aid the reader. Even the simplest text representation can do both.
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This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
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"You mean like from space?"
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Anything written in English. (I really don't understand the question.)
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Need I say more? 
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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Just like here 
veni bibi saltavi
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Enough said!
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Which is easiest depends on the medium and environment I am reading it and also upon the message is is trying to convey.
Sometimes plain text will be best, other times the inclusion of diagrams, screenshots and/or code will be better.
As to whether its HTML, RTF, DOC, PDF, whatever I don't care. I don't generally want to read the markup just the message.
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... in some people's minds, obviously.
I don't actually think of html or code as "documents"; they're just texts. Big difference.
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Flow charts to be in Picture/images only
Code should be in CODE format only ;
Defination/saying in Plain text with ASCII formatting (BOLD, Italics)
Rest of the things in Plain text
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The only reason people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.
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It all depends on what it is that I am reading. Code is formatted one way while user docs are formatted another.
the same also goes for api docs.
what is it that I am reading??
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The formatting is far less important than the content of the document.
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Generally the text is tattooed on the rounder body parts of attractive women. Small graphics are acceptable, as well.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Generally the text is tattooed on the rounder body parts of attractive women.
As long as it is NOT on the better, rounded areas.
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I do not like people, who try to say everything in one image. Neither do I support people who try to use short and straight-forward double-meaning slogans.
I like both of them, a short, well described paragraph, with/without an adequate photograph of what is being told. This makes the statement a little bit more understandable, and it then targets all of the audience, it enables the users who like to read text, who read formatted text and who like to view images all in a single collection, to read and understand the concept.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
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...to look at the pictures... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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I actually read documents easiest, printed, properly formatted and typeset on hard copy. Ideally in a book, magazine or newspaper.
Striking that the poll misses the most common document format in the world.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
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Rob Grainger wrote: the once most common document format in the world
FTFY
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I am serious ... and dont call me Shirley!!
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To a large extent on what I am reading it on: for my tablet, HTML / "Web view" is the easiest, as it allows me to control the format by zooming, and text flows to match the screen. In this, images can be a PITA...
On a PC, PDF is good - and images are often a life saver, when the content of the text is confused.
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It might sound I am too demanding, but the easiest format to read/understand documents is Video for me.
Gone are the days, when I used to read articles or technical documentation(s). Now, I just follow youtube for most of the stuffs.
Obviously, for client/s projects documents, Proposals, CRs, etc., I don't have options 
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