Scribd: Online Document Sharing

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Online document sharing service and a virtual document library where users can search, browse, rate, upload, and share all kind of documents (jokes, facts, stories, legal, presentations, etc.). It’s like Youtube for text files.

    “Scribd’s mission is to create the world’s largest open library of documents. Explore the thousands of docs already uploaded or contribute your own!”

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Scribd - Online Document Sharing

Feature Overview

  • Browse docs by popularity (recent, most viewed, most liked, most discussed, etc.), and by different languages (English, Japanese, Spanish etc)
  • Also browse docs by category and tag cloud
  • Upload document without registering. Although, if you register you will be able to manage and track documents online.
  • Get viewer statistics on uploaded documents once you register.
  • Supported document formats: .pdf, .doc, .ppt, .xls, .txt, .odt, .odp, etc.
  • Share documents with friends and/or other Scribd users.
  • Browse through profiles and documents of other members

Embedding Demo

Check out Scribd @ www.scribd.com

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    7 Comments »

    2007-11-23 10:36:48

    […] Read more: Scribd - Document Sharing Community […]

     
    2007-11-25 13:18:12

    […] (3) Scribd - Scribd has the biggest document collection, but it’s not focused on professional documents alone. It’s more like a virtual document library, where anyone can freely upload and share any kind of text documents (jokes, facts, stories, legal, presentations, etc.). Although, there is a good deal of useless stuff, it still has lots of legal forms and document templates. Read more: Scribd - Online Document Sharing. […]

     
    Comment by Alan
    2008-01-30 22:01:41

    Doesn’t seem to work with Open Document files (.odt) even though they say it does.

    Comment by Aibek
    2008-01-31 08:54:24

    weird… ODT is a very popular extension. Maybe something wrong with you file? Did you try some other ODT files?

     
     
    2008-05-04 01:39:15

    […] find that many documents there. If you’re interested in bigger ones then check out Scribd or […]

     
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    […] is a new service (from Scribd) that makes it easy for you to email document attachments to others and ensure that everyone is […]

     
    2008-06-21 11:25:29

    […] and commenting. If you need such features then you might want to check out previously covered Scribd, Edocr or […]

     
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