Post #995369

MIT Press Direct has more than 500 books freely available via an open access publishing program, very nice! However... downloading the PDF will insert a "downloaded on $date from $url by guest" footer on every page that is so wide it breaks automatic zoom and makes the PDF difficult to handle on a tablet. If you use the web reader instead and peek into the network tab of the browser's developer tools you will see the URL for a rather large json file. Fetch it with curl or similar, base64 decode the "data" field, and you will have the unmodified PDF. Why do people make things so bad deliberately?