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Originally Posted by rhadin
I don't have any studies, just 28 years of experience. When I first began my editing career, everything was done on paper. Paper was great unless you discovered 100 pages later that edits you made earlier need to be revised in light of information subsequently revealed. Then good luck finding those earlier edits without having to go back through the manuscript page by page and increasing the cost. Even then nothing assured that all would be caught.
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Well, I was thinking about the copy editing of a fiction book.
Maybe line editing is a bit different if it includes much more re-writing than copy editing.
But structural editing I assume is best done on paper since this is giving feedback to the author about bigger changes.