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What would you suggest for downloading technical documentation, legislation, court decisions, and academic papers?

• weinzierl 8y ago
  Why would you want to download it in the first place? You can read the documents in your browser just fine and chances are you will be reading the PDFs in the browser anyway. If you insist to download and archive it DJVU is fine for the documents you mentioned because it contains rendered graphics as well as searchable text. ePub is another option if you need vector images and outline fonts. I give you the point about academic papers because math in the browser is subpar. I would have written "still subpar" but I think that is what I have been saying for at least ten years now - I'm not sure there is any hope. On the other hand I often read papers on my mobile and it is not as convenient as reading the web. Especially the two column layout that many papers have is a nuisance. I wish there was a way to distribute papers with beautiful math and reflowable text.
  • deogeo 8y ago
    > Why would you want to download it in the first place? You can read the documents in your browser just fine Because you don't want it to 404 on you after a year or two.
    • weinzierl 8y ago
      If that is your concern: "Save as..." works pretty well in modern browsers. I use Zotero for organizing the documents I want to keep and that works pretty well too. I'm sure there are other options, offline (like Zotero) or cloud based. And there are always archive.org and archive.is...