Liberating manuals from the many jails of manuals into InternetArchive
Liberating manuals from the many jails of manuals into InternetArchive
There is now an ocean of protectionist user manual hoarders who fight to get to the top of search rankings that drown out the better sources. Then when you try to get a manual they put you through many JavaScript-proliferated obsticals, captchas, personal info disclosure, if you successfully make it...
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Problem: Damn! There are a hundred places to try and find a manual you're looking for!
Idea: Let's create a single place where we collect all the manuals!
Conclusion: There are now a hundred and one places to try and find a manual you're looking for.
(also not to discourage any such efforts, especially to such an openly accessible place like archive.org)
I suspect all the manual wardens are actually harvesting archive.org then focusing their effort on getting a high search rank. Notice if you expand archive.org’s filters, there is a subject preset for manualzilla and manualzz. So when liberating a manual, it also feeds the baddies. But nothing we can do on that.
I’ll probably change my habits to search archive.org first, before using a web search.