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I've found clicking a PDF link on anything but Mac OS to be rather unpleasant. Many people (me included) consider the scribd link a more pleasant experience.

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Contrast this with my experience: whenever I happen upon an article on Scribd I immediately skip over it. I really don't like the user interface. (I'm on a Mac, by the way.)

Try foxit reader over the adobe junk :-) I switched a while ago and it's such an improved experience.

That doesn't run well on my platform of choice. Evince does though, and is also fast and lightweight. Still, I find PDF links a bit annoying, and am glad to have the scribd option.

I just put Evince on all my Windows machines and I am very happy about it. I was able to remove all the Adobe Air bonus arterial sclerosis.

I tried Foxit and was not very impressed. I thought it was interesting that the Evince windows port was made since the last time I looked for an Acrobat replacement about a year ago.

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