All of that is true of a single source file too -- editors can generate tables of content and cross-references. The experience of using a well-organized paper e

All of that is true of a single source file too -- editors can generate tables of content and cross-references. The experience of using a well-organized paper encyclopedia and Wikipedia are fundamentally different. The point of "serial" is that if I want to read a book, I have to pick an origin point and then start scanning linearly. There's no search bar in a textbook.