[PhasmaFelis]

You can also just scroll down and read the article on the page.

[Terretta]

Prefer to read in Papers or LiquidText, but Academia wants my contact list first which is a special kind of scummy.

    academia.edu would like to:
    - Know who you are on Google	
    - View your email address
    - View your basic profile info
    - View your contacts

[laarc]

Thank you. Apparently I'm blind.

[PhasmaFelis]

Well, it is really non-obvious, to the point that I think they're clearly trying to hide it. The white space expands to push the start of the paper below the fold no matter how large your window is, and the "READ PAPER" text is light grey on white.