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You're seriously so pissy about scribd that you're currently objecting to their using standard html instead of images? Get a life.

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I'm trying to figure out why they're bothering to solve something that's already been solved pretty well.

eg:

http://docs.google.com/gview?url=http://infolab.stanford.edu...

Users won't see any difference, or care.

I do think scribd up to now has been pretty bad for the web, locking plain text documents and images up in their walled garden. Maybe they can change that, but what value can they actually add? What problem are they solving?

And of course, you know that users won't see any difference or care, despite never having seen, let alone used it. Just because you think the problem has been solved well enough, doesn't mean everyone does. After all, who needs a refrigerator when you have an ice box?

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