It really depends on what you want to do with them. If your app just wants to read them in their entirety, then embedding them can make a lot of sense: I do that with revision history and ToDo files so I can display them in "About" boxes.
If you want to change them, then that's a bad idea because you can't - embedded resources are part of your EXE file so you cannot edit them once your app has been compiled.
If you embed your files and add them to the RESOURCES.RESX file, you can access them directly using Property.Resources.
Have a look here:
One more time about Resource vs. EmbeddedResource – Ivan Krivyakov[
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