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by al3x 5750 days ago
Thank you. I've never understood why Scribd exists at all. The web has done fine at moving documents around before Scribd, and it'll keep doing it fine long after they disappear.
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I would prefer a service that just focuses on the .pdf discovery rather than a viewer, so like Google Scholar with some social services around it.

You can still get the viewing stats, your just not at the services whim, simply move your file and the service will just remove the listing. Makes sense to me, probably some stuff like this out there seems fairly obvious.

emailing pdf's is not my definition of "doing fine", I am not following the current drama much, but I do thank scribd for letting me look at content I would have otherwise ignored on seeing ".pdf"
I always thought that Scribd was just a reaction to how awful Adobe's free PDF reader has become.
What is the problem with pdf ? Editing a document in html is too painful.
What does that quality of Adobe's pdf reader have to do with the ease of editing documents in html or pdf?