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They Are Scribd

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The selling point: No more downloading; you can view everything in your browser.

Huh? What have I been doing up till now?

Being miserable. Rejoice at this new bright future of no more downloading.

Your browser contains an entire copy of the Internet. Haven't you noticed the immense amount of RAM Firefox and IE take up nowadays?

Did they really get 21 million users in May! That's crazy - it's competitive with Digg.

Compete shows them in the low millions though...

Has anyone done a good comparison of Scribd vs PDF taking into account things like latency and browsing over a slow connection? I never even think about the time it takes to download a PDF on my DSL line but I can imagine that Scribd might be better at letting you see just the first page of a document over a bad connection.

Hmm... I tried to look at some of the popular documents, but they come up empty (gray background only). Can anyone else confirm they see the same thing?

I noted the same thing on FireFox 3, but camino worked just fine.

Hey Ivan and Eric,

Does the document re-appear when you change the zoom level? If so, this is a known issue and a fix should be deployed soon.

In any case please feel free to email me if you ever discover a bug we may not be be aware of (ed at scribd.com). Thanks, guys!

Thanks. Works now in FF3 - so I can't really be of much help.

It could be your Flash player. Make sure you have the latest update.

latimes showing some ycombinator love of late. good write up, captures the unique side of this cool company. sounds like a fun place to work.

i love scribd, more for the comunity (groups, friends, comments, related docs, etc) than for the ipaper itself.

but i'm afraid that if the site become too popular they will be teased by copyright, and ruin the whole site (for my personal usage).

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