I agree, but gave up trying to convince people. I now use a userscript to rewrite all arxiv pdf links (outside arxiv itself) to point to the corresponding abstr

I agree, but gave up trying to convince people. I now use a userscript to rewrite all arxiv pdf links (outside arxiv itself) to point to the corresponding abstract page: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/imurray2/code/user_scripts/arxiv_abs.user.js http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/imurray2/code/user_scripts/arx...