Reader David Schwartz of Framingham, Mass., emails,
In your post about the Marines ad, which I loved despite coming from an antiwar lefty family, you complained about not be able to put pdf files on Blogger. I found a site that will host pdf files and you can hot link them to your blogger site. It's http://www.scribd.com/This is a very useful site. Thank you, David, for the pointer.
It works great and I use to store document for my classroom. I teach science. You can also store documents privately. Here is an example of how I use it: http://esatashland.blogspot.com/2008/01/managing-elephant-populations.html.
Scribd has unlimited free storage and no ads and converts documents to different formats. It has a view-full-screen setting and you can print from their interface. It is kind of a Youtube for documents. In fact with the privacy settings, it has the ability to take files in these formats:
Microsoft Office
doc, ppt, pps, xls
pdf, ps
Open Office
odt, odp, sxw, sxi, etc.
Images
jpg, jpeg, png, gif
Text
txt, rtf
Why would you restrict your docs to your computer when you can also store them in the cloud computer of the future? Have them available anywhere and shareable if you want.
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