Howto download pdf ebooks from Scribd for free (and plant a tree)

If you do not want Scribd to mess around your facebook personal data, here is your clean (nothing to install) trick:

Start your Firefox browser and open about:config in a new tab. Accept the warning.

Select and copy “general.useragent.override” without quotes.
Right click on the page, click New, click String.
Right click and Paste for new string value.
Hit enter for value.

Select and copy “Opera/9.80 (J2ME/MIDP; Opera Mini/6.24288/25.729; U; en) Presto/2.5.25 Version/10.54” without quotes.
Go back to the about:config tab, hit Enter. Right click and paste for the value.

Great, now hit reload on the Scribd page. The website think you are on a mobile phone and will offer you a BIG download button. Use it wisely 🙂

Now, since your browsing experience will be somehow weird (all the websites will think you are on a mobile device), go back to the about:config tab.
Right click on the blue line (general.useragent.override) and hit reset.
You may close the about:config tab now.

The browser is back to his initial state, no plugins installed, no backdoors, no ads.
Clean like a child 🙂

Enjoy your book, be smarter, and share the knowledge.
If you love the book, buy it.
Buy the book in electronic format, it is cheaper and you save a few branches from a tree.

For every 10 books downloaded using this trick, consider planting a tree.
Is simple and gives you inexplicably satisfaction.
You will be amazed how fast those trees grow. And they need nearly nothing. Not even close what a dog needs to grow.
And dogs do not create Oxygen, you know?