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Comment by wannacboatmovie | Hacker News Reader

This is a brilliant website, destroyed by abhorrent UX. Completely unusable on mobile. A link to some PDFs would be 1000x more effective. It makes me long for the simple paper catalogs.

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I found it less jarring once I found the sound OFF toggle.

There is also a mobile mode, but not like a bulk PDF.

I'm guessing they're saving bandwidth by loading each page individually. If they gave me PDFs, I would spider all 73 years like a packrat, and look at < 10% of them.

I think there's a trivial wget script that would download each page and pdf-ify it, but I figured I could be lazy and let someone else write it and just reap the rewards without the work.

I hope the PDFs get uploaded to a torrent file on the archive.org site sometime, that would be much easier.

If you look for a torrent on google of course you are safe because good guy big brother google filters out all wrongthink so we can have rightthink like google knows best

If you look for a dinky little search engine called presearch, which isn't anything special, but is still superior to google because it hasn't gone through censorship/marketing armageddon, what you SHOULD NOT DO is presearch- radio shack catalogs "torrent" - and DO NOT click on links to 1337x.to or else you might accidentally download the catalog torrent.

Yeah I came back to this thread to see if anyone tracked down the source PDFs so I could virtually thumb through some of these on my way home. Can’t get one to load and not refresh itself constantly on my phone.

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