It can be easier to have some notebooks not get re-executed in CI, and with a few tweaks (and a README explaining the why and how) it is possible to have some notebooks not be executed, but still rendered via sphinx/RTD.
See also:
https://nbsphinx.readthedocs.io/en/0.9.3/executing-notebooks.html
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