FWIW, I also tend to use the PDF version of the reference manual to hunt for LaTeX errors in the doc (not only those which break the compilation, but also semantic ones). In my experience, they are much easier to spot in the PDF than in the HTML (which also displays badly on older browsers -- I had to install chromium on my virtual ubuntu because firefox wouldn't show the tex at all). Other than this, I don't remember using the PDF manual for anything; I could imagine it being easier to search for specific keywords than the HTML manual (because e.g. all of sage-combinat is a single PDF file), but I guess that could be gotten for a better price.
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