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Comment by bradgessler | Hacker News Reader

I still don't get scribd: http://blog.bradgessler.com/i-dont-get-scribd

Can't agree more. And they want me to sign up in order to see or download a plain PDF, thats not going to happen.

Scribd would be much more useful if they supported predictable URLs of a document in their various formats. For example, if I uploaded My_Awesome_Document.docx, it could throw it into an URL like http://www.scribd.com/bradgessler/My_Awesome_Document.docx and let me enter URLs like

  http://www.scribd.com/bradgessler/My_Awesome_Document.pdf
  http://www.scribd.com/bradgessler/My_Awesome_Document.doc

to download the various formats of the doc. an URL shortner would sweeten the deal for tweeting/sharing docs. iPaper could just be another option for sharing/embedding a doc.

I'm probably just a vocal minority.

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