The epic shittiness of Acrobat Reader 7 is just how scribd got traction -- they don't really give a shit about PDF viewers -- their raison d'têre is to be the Y

The epic shittiness of Acrobat Reader 7 is just how scribd got traction -- they don't really give a shit about PDF viewers -- their raison d'têre is to be the Youtube of documents. Their Flash viewer is terrible (doesn't work at all on Linux) and their site is largely hostile to the idea of you actually reading the content. I had an involved email conversation with one of the founders after slamming their iPaper flash viewer here before, but nothing ultimately came of it. Choose life. Choose Google's pure-JS document viewer: http://docs.google.com/viewer http://docs.google.com/viewer