Book design inspired by Edward Tufte - LaTeX Template on writeLaTeX
www.writelatex.com/templates/book-design-inspired-by-edward-tufte/gcfbtdjfqdjh#.VGwR_ott7KA
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Saved with the link. Notes from 2007 to 2016 are mostly the page's own words, so this is probably an excerpt.
Here we present the excellent sample book produced by the The Tufte-LaTeX Developers pre-loaded into writeLaTeX for you to use as a starting point for your own work.