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Where can I upload manuals hassle-free, but also without hassle to repairers who download them? (thebrainbin.org)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/right2repair@discuss.tchncs.de
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I previously posted:

Liberating manuals from the many jails of manuals into InternetArchive

It turns out if you create an archive.org account, they might delete it. Not sure why my acct no longer works. It’s a bit off that we must go through registration hoops in the first place in order to /contribute/ to the archive.

Anyway, I went to the effort of unbinding and scanning a manual that does not exist in the cloud. Where is a good place to upload it? I am certaintly not going to feed a manual jail of any kind. Has to be effort-free for both contributors and users.

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[–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

This may be an option. https://www.ifixit.com/Wiki/Sharing_PDFs

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 year ago

    Good tip. I get the impression they only want service manuals and exclude user manuals. I do have some service manuals to contribute so I’ll be considering ifixit for those for sure.

    I guess they wouldn’t want the user manual I just scanned. A search of their docs db doesn't show any user manuals so I suppose a user manual would pollute their archives.

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    • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Anna's Archive or one of the other shadow libraries would be a good idea, even if it's in addition to wherever else you land.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago

    well, shit.. it looked good for a moment but then I discovered it’s a Cloudflare site. CF is harmful to digital freedom and netneutrality. OTOH, I can see that they at least whitelisted Tor and the registration requires no information. But I see no upload mechanism, so it’s apparently not a way to contribute manuals.

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    • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I found some stuff for my MC on https://www.docdroid.net/

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