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It's a pretty fast download. It's possible that folks are downloading the book every time they come back to read more of it. To check this, you could see how
by astrofinch 16y ago
It's a pretty fast download. It's possible that folks are downloading the book every time they come back to read more of it.
To check this, you could see how strongly browsers with built-in PDF viewers are being overrepresented in the logs--especially compared to some control web page that doesn't link to Learning Python the Hard Way (an unrelated blog post, say). (The point of the control web page being to measure the effect of people interested in programming-related topics using classier browsers with built-in PDF viewers.)
- patrickaljord 16y agoYes, there are probably people with embedded viewers that downloaded it several times not to mention all the HN and reddit users that read the article on the front page and downloaded it just to have a look, it's hard to tell exactly. Regardless, it's still a huge number of downloads so congrats for that.
- nikster 16y agoHate that about Safari. Most of the time I certainly don't want to read a PDF in the browser.
- tuhin 16y agoIf I am not wrong, Chrome behaves in a similar fashion too, right?
- maguay 16y agoYes, Chrome now includes a native PDF viewer - http://chrome.blogspot.com/2010/11/pdf-goodness-in-chrome.html http://chrome.blogspot.com/2010/11/pdf-goodness-in-chrome.ht.... Works quite good, too, and is much faster than the Adobe Acrobat embedded reader. Though, usually when I click a PDF link I want to download it instead of viewing it in my browser.
- mambodog 16y agoYes, and it can be disabled by navigating to chrome://plugins and disabling "Chrome PDF Viewer". Opening a PDF will just initiate a download.
- js2 16y agodefaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitOmitPDFSupport -bool YES