This may be true on windows machines, but on OS X, or the iPhone, the experience is reversed - clicking on a pdf is a very fast easy operation, allowing you to

This may be true on windows machines, but on OS X, or the iPhone, the experience is reversed - clicking on a pdf is a very fast easy operation, allowing you to read the document easily and quickly with all the functionality you expect. The scribd link results in a hideous looking font shown in a slow loading flash app. (Or on the iphone, nothing) - try scrolling in their scribd flash app - Serious Lag. Windows does not have a built in pdf viewer, and the pdf viewers you can get aren't good. But the solution seems totally wrong. The real solution is to make a really nice pdf viewer plugin for windows.