Just wondering: Is there any decent Pdf host besides scribd? Every time I visit the site I regret it once again. The list of additional domains to whitelist in no-script just to view the content is endless. Just a simple Pdf link would be much more pleasant.
There is DocumentCloud, which Jeremy Ashkenas led (and was the project from which he spun off Underscore.js and Backbone.js, among other things). It's the best implementation of PDF on the web that I've seen though it is invite only to news orgs (it was jointly sponsored by the New York Times and ProPublica)
I used to hate Scribd when it was flash, but now that its HTML5 it is sometimes preferable to the broken PDF installations on borrowed computers (like, popping up Acrobat offering to update, selL me AV, etc). At home I generally prefer direct PDF, though.
