When scribd loads a pdf as a flash only page (the links from Hacker News for example go to the flash only) there is no way to download it. But I have seen scrib

When scribd loads a pdf as a flash only page (the links from Hacker News for example go to the flash only) there is no way to download it. But I have seen scribd pages where they have a row of icons above the embedded flash and one of them is a download link. Personally, the only problem I have with scribd is the use of Flash. I think I would actually use the site if it presented pdfs using javascript and images, much like Google books. You could still search the book, just as Google books does, because it searches the text on the server side and returns images of the pages with highlighted text. I think this does add something new to PDF in that it makes it possible to share a book online without allowing easy download if there is interest in doing that.