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Clicklaw Wikibooks provide plain language, trustworthy legal information in both digital and print formats. Clicklaw Wikibooks feature a free, accessible online resource (the wiki version of a publication) that is also used to produce a printed book. Try out our Clicklaw Wikibooks: | Clicklaw Wikibooks provide plain language, trustworthy legal information in both digital and print formats. Clicklaw Wikibooks feature a free, accessible online resource (the wiki version of a publication) that is also used to produce a printed book. | ||
Try out our Clicklaw Wikibooks: | |||
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Clicklaw Wikibooks are an attempt to solve two central problems with publishing legal information: | Clicklaw Wikibooks are an attempt to solve two central problems with publishing legal information: | ||
# | #The law is changing all the time: It is very cumbersome and time consuming to keep a legal publication up-to-date using the traditional model &mdash that is, updating a word processing or page layout file; emailing versions back and forth between author, editor and reviewer; and sending a printable PDF off to the printer. | ||
# | #Most legal publications are optimized for printing, and are not that easy to use online: The way most legal publications are produced is to format for printing, then create a PDF of the printed version, and put the PDF on the Internet. The resulting PDFs aren't easy to navigate around, to view on the screen, or to find for that matter. | ||
Clicklaw Wikibooks try to solve these problems: | Clicklaw Wikibooks try to solve these problems: | ||