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Printed to PDF the piece runs 36 pages, about 12,000 words, or roughly an hour's read.

It is long.

Exactly, it's more like a short book than a regular article, pretty long even by long-reads standard.

I was curious if people rather read content like this on paper than scrolling for an hour on a screen :)

I stopped reading when the article turned toward a history of the guy Aronson. I said to myself "Oh hell no, I'm not wasting my time reading about this guy I don't care about", I looked at the scroll bar and nope'd out of the whole article. Nothing to do with the delivery medium.

That was my exact process too, got to that section about Aronson, saw the scrollbar, and got out of there.

Looks like you followed my next step too, jumped into the comment section to see if someone posted about an interesting highlight that I might have missed by skipping the rest of the article :)

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