Liberating manuals from the many jails of manuals into InternetArchive

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• Arghblarg@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I have particular seething hatred for Scribd. That site needs to die in a fire (after all of its jailed manuals are liberated, of course ;) )

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• kabi@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Problem: Damn! There are a hundred places to try and find a manual you're looking for! Idea: Let's create a single place where we collect all the manuals! Conclusion: There are now a hundred and one places to try and find a manual you're looking for. --- [credit](https://xkcd.com/927/) (also not to discourage any such efforts, especially to such an openly accessible place like archive.org)

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  • synesthesia@thebrainbin.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I suspect all the manual wardens are actually harvesting archive.org then focusing their effort on getting a high search rank. Notice if you expand archive.org’s filters, there is a subject preset for manualzilla and manualzz. So when liberating a manual, it also feeds the baddies. But nothing we can do on that. I’ll probably change my habits to search archive.org first, before using a web search.

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