Read the zines, and liked especially the gardening one. Had Mort Garsons Plantasia running while going through it :).
When I was young and went to school, I prefered .txt files over Word/PDF; I even got points reduced for doing it. I still use them for many things, including my own programming at many points (if you want modability, there is nothing better than an ini-like plaintext file for storage - easy for machines and humans alike to read, process, and edit); for other things file that allow formatting are clearly preferable, though - I usually use odt files for this (and convert them to pdf if they are intended to go "out".