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without having to pay for publication and wait over a year for the documents to be
published, the site gained notoriety in 2009 after signing a deal with several
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Since then, Scribd has morphed into an online subscription service, built to read
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Despite this refocus on more mainstream titles and novels, Scribd is still used by
millions of people daily to host and share online documents using the platform built
by the site itself. In the site’s documents section, you’ll find historical papers,
political documents, poll results, and plenty of other information for use in your
college assignments, term papers, or just as a general document of interest. And
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While you should avoid downloading and using others’ documents without paying
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provided on the website. Luckily, there are some ways around these restrictions.
Though the three methods outlined below are both occasionally hit or miss, they
often can be used to bypass the Scribd security and subscription measures, making
it easy to view the documents necessary for your next project or paper. Here’s what
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Once you’ve signed in, find the document you want to download using the search
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On the next page, you’ll want to click the Download option on the left side of your
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This will redirect you to a page designed to help you set up your Scribd subscription,
complete with a 30-day free trial. Doing this requires entering payment information,
however, which we want to avoid. So instead, scroll down until you see Start
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Click this text and then the Upload button on the popup that appears. This allows
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Start by navigating Firefox (we can’t suggest using Chrome, as Chrome generates a
.swf file that never manages to download) to the Scribd document you’re looking to
save to your computer. Though Scribd also carries full-length novels and other
works of fiction, we recommend only using this for nonfiction documents and other
sources for your projects, papers, and research. Inside your document’s preview,
right-click the document and select View Page Source from the menu. This will
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In this new page, hit Ctrl+F to open the Find in Page UI in Firefox. In this field, enter
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highlight and copy the code to your computer. It should be an alphanumerical code
that appears as ‘key-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx’. Now head back to the original document
page in your browser and look at the URL at the top of the browser. This time, we’re
looking for the document ID number in the URL of your specific page. Unlike the
access key, the document ID is listed in the URL and consists of several numbers.
The URL should appear as “‘https://www.scribd.com/read/NUMBER/DOCUMENT
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Now, open up a new tab in Firefox. We’re going to create a new URL using the
information provided us by both the access key, the document ID number, and the
following partial URL: “http://d1.scribdassets.com
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document ID and the access key area with the access key you grabbed earlier.
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document that can be used for PDF files. As always, we update this article once
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completely unrelated content. Doesn’t matter how many times you log in/out, or how documents
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