t;).
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<p>The point of reference-style links is not that they&apos;re easier to
write. The point is that with reference-style links, your document
source is vastly more readable. Compare the above examples: using
reference-style links, the paragraph itself is only 81 characters
long; with inline-style links, it&apos;s 176 characters; and as raw HTML,
it&apos;s 234 characters. In the raw HTML, there&apos;s more markup than there
is text.</p>

<p>With Markdown&apos;s reference-style links, a sour