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[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's the only proper way .

Fuck your website all my homies use their preferred PDF reader.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

The proper way is to send the PDF, with the correct mime, and let the browser deal with it any way it decides to.

The stupid way for a site to act is to tell the browser to download the file instead of displaying it. And the stupid way for a browser to act is to do whatever the site tells it to do instead of what they user wants. The OP seems to have picked a stupid pair of tools.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Honestly, Elsevier is the worst. They tease you with those section snippets, so I scroll from the abstract and can start reading the introduction...scroll a bit more and it's unceremoniously cut off mid-sentence. Then I rage because the article is newer than 2022 (no Sci-Hub) and my institution gets cheaper every year.

I can't view papers I've published in some journals anymore. When I see this, I think: "Why don't we subscribe to papers we are actively publishing in?? Why aren't all of the papers I want to read published in open access journals?? Why did I contribute to a journal that wasn't open access??"

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

LPT: Causally edit Wikipedia. Get access.

https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/

I swear they have better access rights than my uni.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I will try this, thank you for the advice. Normally I end up contacting the authors when I don't have access. Some are great and respond within the hour, some never respond.

Also, thanks for carrying this community. I enjoy your posts.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

If that fails, https://www.wosonhj.com/

Note: Edits on wiki build up fast as you do little commits!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't get it

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Instead of opening it in the browser directly. They are dying from the extra clicks.