While other information-intense domains were completely disrupted (e.g. mail order catalogues, street maps), scholarly information continues to be published as static documents, a root cause of major challenges for the scientific method overall, including proliferation of publications and reproducibility crisis. (Sources: 17^th century, https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1665.0001; 19^th century, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39489576; and 21^st century, https://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2020-018.)