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by perryizgr8 2003 days ago
> Likewise, wouldn’t you be baffled if you needed to click a “Start Editing” button in Word or Google Docs?

Not at all. In fact I prefer the "viewing" mode in Google docs when I'm just reading a document written by someone else. Why would you want everything to be editable all the time? Usually docs are produced by one or maybe a few people and viewed by many more.