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If reports are often ctrl-F'd through for relevant information, it seems likely that many people consuming it are reading far fewer than 90 pages in total - and
by fwip 6y ago
If reports are often ctrl-F'd through for relevant information, it seems likely that many people consuming it are reading far fewer than 90 pages in total - and wouldn't have read the full shorter report.
Perhaps it is better to be comprehensive in government reports than concise, to accommodate a variety of readers who want to drill into different aspects of the report.
(Of course, a PDF may not be the best structure for this! A well-formatted HTML reference with appropriate hyperlinks may be much more useful.)
- formerly_proven 6y agoYeah, but who is actually going to read a 7000 page report on torture or surveillance? (Assuming these reports were actually published, which they were not)
- asdff 6y agoOr a PDF document with a table of contents. Look at this clickable beauty containing a wealth of information in tidy categories: http://media.metro.net/about_us/vision-2028/report_metro_vision_2028_plan_2018.pdf http://media.metro.net/about_us/vision-2028/report_metro_vis...