Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> but watching through twenty minutes of the easy bits

Exactly. I can scan a text pretty quickly and then read the important
(to me) bits as slowly and as often as I like. It's very hard if not
impossible to do that with a video.

> there are occasions when a well shot video
> of a particularly fiddly and hard to describe task (like getting the
> connectors back on when reassembling a phone - never again!) can be useful

Yes. But I have not yet come across a case where a good photograph or
even better a drawing, where you can enhance the hard to see bits, will
not serve as well or better.

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