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Blahah on March 15, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Handful of Biologists Went Rogue and Published Dir...

readcube is a spectacular somersault in the wrong direction. It is so much worse than a PDF - it actively fights me when I try to extract information.

jessriedel on March 15, 2016 | [–]

Isn't that the idea? My impression is that it's a format introduced to help publishers like Nature introduce frictions to copying their content.

stuxnet79 on March 16, 2016 | [–]

Wasn't very impressed by it either, but clearly there are a few startups in this area.

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