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but if they just gave you pdf, how would they track every mouse movement for their bullshit metrics?
would somebody think of the advertisers?
Advertisers? Think of the managers! Managers are nothing without their metrics.
No, it should obviously take you to “pay us enormous amount of money every month” page first.
Suck my InterLibraryLoan, Pearson.
suck my pear, son
https://…/epdf/… -> https://…/pdf/…
Works for some places at least. Super infuriating though. Why use the fast native PDF viewer in the browser when you could use a bloated and buggy JS app?
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Fair, but certain corporate-mandated client-side PDF viewers are… bloatier. Though, I do like not having another window to manage when I open in browser, particularly when doing web searches. It pairs well with tab grouping extensions, and I generally don’t use markup, so no loss for me there.
Oh boy, I sure am excited to websites hosting PDFs! I love when the tool that everyone uses for hosting and viewing HTML get to be blessed with the perfect format that is PDF!
I LOVE PDFS! I love two column PDFs! I love reading like this!
1 3
2 4
5 7
6 8Instead of like this
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8It’s amazing and such a good user experience!
I love that PDFs are so difficult to transform into HTML, too. I would never want the besmirch the publishers oerfect one approved layout by resizing the window!
I’ve always called Word documents and PDFs “dead-end formats” (DEF). Once you export your data to them, there’s no reliable way to retrieve your data from them for further transformation like you can for YAML, JSON, XML, HTML, Markdown, &c.
Choose your own adventure PDF! 1, 5, 7, 3, 9, 2, 0, 6, 4, 8! What an ending!
That will be $30.12
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At least you can usually print them as PDF easily. My main issue is that the page title becomes “PDF.js Viewer - [Paper title]”.
well they have to justify the exorbitant amount of money they charge for publicly funded science articles (apart from the obvious reason of thinking about the shareholders)
I’ll just be happy it doesn’t ask me to make an account
Or a virus. It could be an exciting virus.
nothing beats having to click the download button twice. it’s my favorite
Truly. Also the springer nature ones load so slowly for absolutely no reason, and break 10% of the time. I really don’t get what their motivation is, do they think that after I’ve said no, I dont want a web version, I will be happy with a different web version?
I use searxng and it has some option that automaticly replaces links wich just give u the pdf based on the doi or whatever its called.
PDF button? Or time to create an account to get a subscription to access that PDF!
Honestly, i prefer a native renderer over a XSS-plagued js.
