Free downloads from Scribd!
Posted: September 6, 2010 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: free, scribd 13 Comments »Update: I don’t know if this still works, so if someone nice enough stumbles across this page, could you please try it and tell me if it worked in the comment section? TIA.
Today I found a possibly nice book on Scribd that I wanted to read. However, their Flash-based viewer absolutely sucks and I also want the book offline. But that book was part of the “Scribd Archive” and I needed to pay to view it.
Well, I’m not going to pay for something like that.
So, after a short round of trial and error, I found that Scribd can send you PDFs by e-mail. For any book. For free. The secret? You need to click the “Mobile” button (look for it), select Android (maybe others work, I only tried Android), select that the book should be sent to you by email (instead of SMS), input your email address and click “Send to my device”. Then, you’ll be greeted by a ready-to-download PDF (or plaintext, there’s an option for that) attachment. Start Evince/Okular/whatever and go read it 
Note that I only tested this on one book, but it should work for most other books too. Also, it may require (free) registration with Scribd.
This didn’t work for me. The file I wanted is in their Archive, so this method simply did not work.
Tested it just now
works perfectly
and such an elegant solution as well
thanks a lot!
There was a ‘download now’ button on the mobile version of the page for the book I wanted, that just downloaded the book straight to my PC. Couldn’t see any option for email, but either way it worked! I can’t thank you enough for this!
Amazing! Works like a charm. Needed this desperately. Thank you so much.
Thank you!!!!
great man. Loved the way trick.
you’re rock man..thx alot
thank you man!
It worked! Thnks lots!! I was worried it would never worked for me-I don’t own an Android!
Yeah, but Scribd doesn’t know that.
Great Info!!!
Genius! It seems their “upload book to download a book” doesn’t work btw
youre the man!!
just hit “download original” button on your email and it working like a charm!
thx so much