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We're in the process of back-converting existing documents to HTML5. Most of your recent public documents should be converted now or soon, with private docs to come later.

If you have a Scribd account, visit http://www.scribd.com/account/edit#sharing and turn off all the Readcast options. The popup will be suppressed.

HN is using the "slurp" API we make available at scribd.com/developers. Documents uploaded via the slurping system are marked as private and uploaded to a fixed "slurp" account for which no one (outside of Scribd) has the password.

Try the fullscreen button -- is that what you're looking for?

With regards to default viewmodes, that's working for iPaper and is coming soon for the HTML5 viewer.

Go ahead and upload documents in any formats supported by Scribd ... they'll be added to our conversion queue and appear as HTML 5 documents when ready.

All documents uploaded to Scribd (either automatically or manually) are stored in S3 and are available on Scribd until the document is deleted from Scribd. If you find your content was uploaded to Scribd without your permission, you should contact our support team; they'll take care of it for you.

The new viewer doesn't use the full spectrum of HTML 5 features, to maintain compatibility with older browsers, but it would not be possible before HTML 5.

Google rasterizes the PDF and streams it to you as an image. Scribd will be converting documents to HTML and CSS while maintaining a near perfect facsimile of the original document.

Just in case anyone's wondering -- it's not just converting each page to an image. It's all HTML5 text, graphics, and images where appropriate.