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0 pointsilamont15y ago0 comments

There are several reasons why I use it:

- I can post papers or other documents that other people might value but not otherwise be available, such as court docs, academic papers, etc.

- I can embed the documents easily in my blogs (and before at the publication I worked at)

- I don't have to worry about hosting. I could easily upload the PDFs to the Web server my school grants me, but after I graduate, it's gone, and I have to find another solution and change the links.

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acqq15y ago

Post "papers of other documents": You can upload them on your free web account (like, Google Sites)? Unless you don't have the right to distribute the documents, they will remain there.

Embed: Who really needs embedded PDF? What for? To have it harder to read? Just give me the plain link, thank you.

Hosting: See the first paragraph.

OK, anybody knows some better reason?

Andrew_Quentin15y ago

The best reason is really so that people who are not that computer literate, that is most people, like a student who does not know much about computers, but has a file that he owns to share, he can put it on there.

If someone is literate sufficiently with the internet to know how easy is to get hosting, and how cheap, then really there is no reason.

njharman15y ago

This is the fundemental fail of scibd and why ive written them off from the start.

their value depends on users being ignorant.

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jasonlotito15y ago

> You can upload them on your free web account (like, Google Sites)?

To be fair, that's what he did at the time. This account also had some added features he valued.

acqq15y ago

I see jasonlotito, you write about the main article author. As far as I understood, he tried to use the free university hosting but it was for him "cumbersome" to upload there and to follow the stats. His added values were only easier upload and easier following of the number of "reads."

Note however that he does "self publishing" experiment. Enough readers here would be able to make him one click upload script in less than 10 minutes. Ditto for parsing the logs. I don't feel sorry for him for choosing scribd and feeling how he feels now.

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0 pointsilamont15y ago0 comments

There are several reasons why I use it:

- I can post papers or other documents that other people might value but not otherwise be available, such as court docs, academic papers, etc.

- I can embed the documents easily in my blogs (and before at the publication I worked at)

- I don't have to worry about hosting. I could easily upload the PDFs to the Web server my school grants me, but after I graduate, it's gone, and I have to find another solution and change the links.

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acqq15y ago

Post "papers of other documents": You can upload them on your free web account (like, Google Sites)? Unless you don't have the right to distribute the documents, they will remain there.

Embed: Who really needs embedded PDF? What for? To have it harder to read? Just give me the plain link, thank you.

Hosting: See the first paragraph.

OK, anybody knows some better reason?

Andrew_Quentin15y ago

If someone is literate sufficiently with the internet to know how easy is to get hosting, and how cheap, then really there is no reason.

njharman15y ago

This is the fundemental fail of scibd and why ive written them off from the start.

their value depends on users being ignorant.

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jasonlotito15y ago

> You can upload them on your free web account (like, Google Sites)?

To be fair, that's what he did at the time. This account also had some added features he valued.

acqq15y ago

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