Liberating manuals from the many jails of manuals into InternetArchive
https://thebrainbin.org/m/right2repair@discuss.tchncs.de/t/557089/Liberating-manuals-from-the-many-jails-of-manuals-into-InternetArchive
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kabi@lemm.ee · 11 pts · 1y
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.
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(also not to discourage any such efforts, especially to such an openly accessible place like archive.org)
synesthesia@thebrainbin.org · 9 pts · 1y
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.
Arghblarg@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 1y
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 ;) )