April 24, 2008
Offline Working with Scribd
Since Scribd released their embeddable document previewing iPaper (when I also put together a couple of Scribd bookmarklets) I've largely given up on using Acrobat to view PDF documents on the web and Zoho previewer to view word and powerpoint linked docs.
Yesterday night, whilst sitting waiting for a boat home, and with offline access only, I thought I'd do a quick tab sweep - and joy of joy realised I'd embedded a couple of blog linked PDFs via a Scribd 'iPaper this (embed)' bookmarklet before I left the OU:
Which meant I could read the docs without having downloaded them to my desktop... (Just like I'm trying not to print out so many docs any more, I'm also trying not to download edocs to my desktop; if they're 'one read only' docs, I try to keep them in the confines of the browser!)
So how does Scribd compare with Evernote?
Posted by: AJ Cann at April 24, 2008 03:46 PMre evernote - no idea! I haven;t played with it...
I was just struck how when I'd opened some posts in new tabs over the last few days (queuing up items for my weekly tab sweep), i must have glanced at some of the pdfs by embedding them with the ipaper bookmarklet. Then as i was tabsweeping offline last night, the pdfs i'd forgotten about were readable and embedded in the page.
Posted by: Tony Hirst at April 24, 2008 04:23 PMgood god man i sent you that evernote invite in good faith. what on earth are you doing with your time? ;-)
Posted by: stuart at April 24, 2008 09:23 PM