After about the second one, you will want to just copy and paste your first ine and mod it -- not describe it all again from the beginning. The density of text

After about the second one, you will want to just copy and paste your first ine and mod it -- not describe it all again from the beginning. The density of text simply cannot be equalled by speech. Try showing someone one of Edward Tufte's marvellous tables and see what they can glean from it, versus how long it would take you to explain the same information verbally. There's no jumping the shark on text. It has always won on information density, succinctness, and reusability.