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Scribd iPaper Bookmarklets

One of the neat features about the Scribd iPaper platform is the way it provides you QuickSwitch, a single javascript include that, when added to a page, will convert all the document links to embedded, or online viewable, versions of the document.

So you can get a feel for what this may be like in practice, I've put together a couple of demo bookmarklets. One will convert all the document links to links through to a page that will display the document using iPaper; the other will embed all the documents contained in the page within the page using iPaper.

To use the bookmarklets, drag them on to your bookmarks toolbar (Firefox/Flock - I'm not sure what the process is with IE nowadays?) and then click one of them, when you are on a likely suspect page (e.g. try this page from MIT OpenCourseware: Continuity).

- iPaper this (link) bookmarklet: converts document download links to iPaper viewer links.

- iPaper this (embed) bookmarklet: scans the page for document links and replaces them with the embedded version of each document.

Document Privacy

If you use either of the above bookmarklets, the documents you view will be uploaded to a Scribd account that I have access to.

Generate Your Own Bookmarklets

If you want to have a personalised bookmarklet that uploads documents you view to your own Scribd account, then you can use this bookmarklet generator tool.

If you want to use your own publisher-id in the bookmarklet:

- get a publisher ID for free from the scribd developer site;

- use this iPaper bookmarklet generator utility.

Scribd iPaper Greasemonkey Script

If you know what Greasemonkey is, and want a Greasemonkey script to automatically rewrite document links as iPaper links, try this iPaper link rewriter Greasmonkey script

When you install this script, it will convert all document links in a page to 'view in iPaper' links. As a default, the script is set up to only run on http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/* .

If you want the script to run on all pages, go to the Greasemonkey 'Manage User Scripts' menu item (browser Tools menu, I think?), select the Scribd iPaper linkify script and then add http://* to the allowed sites.

(It may also be worth adding https://* to the disallowed sites...

Document Privacy

All docs viewed using iPaper links generated via the above Greasemonkey script will be uploaded to an account I have access to on Scribd...

If you want the docs to be uploaded to your account, you will need to edit the Greasemonkey script to replace my pub-id with yours...