Scribd Features
Scribd has a lot of features. Most of them are pretty apparent, but we wantto point out a few that you might have overlooked:
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Our
embeddable
PDF player. Scribd documents can easily beembedded in other webpages, such as your blog or Myspace profile.Just copy and paste the embed code on the right side of eachdocument.
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High quality conversions. We convert among a variety of differentformats really well, and you are welcome to use our services toconvert your docs.
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Audio downloads. We have a very high quality text-to-speechconverter and the play button icon below “download as” let’s youdownload the audio version as an mp3. This means you can useScribd to convert a book to a format you can listen to on your iPod.
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Related documents. Also in that right bar is a list of relateddocuments that we determine using fancy text similarity algorithms.This list is a fun way to browse Scribd, and you can also find peoplewho have published documents similar to your own.
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Traffic analytics. This is definitely one of the most popular featureson Scribd and people seem to spend hours playing with it. There are alot of different things you can do, so be sure to sample them all.
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Text statistics. This is a very cool feature that often gets overlooked.Below the traffic analytics, you can see things like how big the wordsare that you use.
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Print(fu). If you order a printed copy of someone’s work, the author gets emailed a dollar! Support the author AND get very high quality printings.
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Favorites. This link at the bottom of every document lets you save adocument in your “favorites” so you can come back and find it later.It is also a good way to tell the author you like his work and to notifyyour friends that you favorited something. This feature is very usefuland we recommend you give it a try.We have an endless list of features we want to add. We will mention justthree of them for now:
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