13 Answers2025-07-08
Most browsers have a “Print to PDF” function. Most people don’t realize that there are default settings for the margins in PDF Print to PDF functions. So, if you’re creating PDFs of your manga and they have huge white borders around the pages, check the Print function for the PDF to see if there’s a setting for the margins. Set them to “None” or “Minimum”. Also, uncheck the boxes for “Headers and Footers” as you don’t want the URL of the webpage that you’re printing from and the date to be printed at the bottom of every page of your manga.
Most people are unaware of the relatively small number of settings that can alter the appearance of a PDF in this way, and so end up printing a normal webpage, and not a ‘manga page’ as intended. Experimenting with the various print preview options to alter these few settings will reveal just how easily a relatively professional looking PDF can be created in a couple of minutes, as opposed to completing a 'hack job' that could have taken hours.
8 Answers2025-08-20
You have to be a lot more specific than that in terms of what you are looking for. Often professors will upload individual chapters to certain sharing sites for classes that they are teaching. So as an example of what I mean, instead of just searching for Steinberg Adolescence, try searching for Steinberg Adolescence Chapter 5, along with terms such as syllabus, pdf, lecture notes, etc. Often these upload to sharing sites are done by professors as part of a university course and the site has not yet gotten around to locking down the permissions for the various uploads to the site. I have found copies of chapters from other textbooks that I needed for specific papers and such using this approach. Note that this approach is completely useless for someone who needs the entire book. But for targeted reading, it can be a very effective strategy.
4 Answers2025-07-10
For older manga novels that are still in print, try searching for “Internet Archive” to find free, legal, and high quality scans of the work. For classic manga that is fan-translated, there is MangaDex, Comic Walker (official free chapters), and Bato.to (more of a community-driven project). Remember to always check if the content is legal before reading.
10 Answers2025-07-29
Reportedly the index and search function in the official PDF is excellent. For someone who works digitally (e.g. CAD/CAM on computer), having the searchable PDF open on a second monitor is very efficient. The user can type in a keyword to jump straight to the relevant page or section. This is in contrast to flipping through the index pages of a physical book and then searching for the relevant information on those pages. For someone who needs the information for productivity purposes, the official digital version may even work out to be cost effective. A pirated scan, unless it has been perfectly OCR'd, is basically a bunch of image files that are slow to navigate through compared to the information on the pages.
6 Answers2025-07-05
In terms of comparing new, used, rental, and even e-textbooks, sites like Chegg, Textbooks.com, and CampusBooks offer the ability to search for the same book across multiple online retailers. Importantly, the sites aggregate new, used, rental, and e-textbook listings from various online bookstores, so you can compare prices from multiple sellers in a single search. The prices may not always be the cheapest available online, but it’s a good place to start. In some cases, renting the e-book directly from the publisher (Norton) may even be cheaper than renting through an online aggregator, so be sure to click on through to the publisher’s website to compare prices. In just a few minutes, you could save yourself $30 or so by avoiding the campus bookstore, which is generally not the cheapest option for textbooks.
11 Answers2025-05-22
Organization becomes a central part of your reading experience as you rely on PDFs to store your books. You have to create a sufficiently logical folder structure – by genre, by author, by series – and you might even rename the PDF files with the respective chapter numbers. In addition to a simple file storage, there are powerful apps like Calibre that allow you to manage your PDF library with all necessary metadata and even cover art. Organizing your virtual library can become a hobby in itself and is definitely very different from reading. The PDF viewer is only the final gateway to your e-book.
3 Answers2025-08-18
All of the 'Holes' PDFs I’ve found are pretty text-heavy, since the story itself is in the words of Louis Sachar and not reliant on illustrations for the main story. There was one teacher’s edition that had very small diagrams for the digging configurations and timelines for the story, but that was about it for extras.
If you need something more to look at while you listen, the audiobook is great. But for PDF lovers, this is a great, text-heavy story. No extra art is needed to tell this great adventure. The original PDF is lean and mean and a great read.
6 Answers2025-06-03
This led me down a rabbit hole last year. The landscape of open-source redaction tools is quite sparse. The open-source software philosophy typically revolves around creation and modification of software, not destruction or obfuscation of data. This is actually quite funny when you think about it.
PDF Redact Tools looks like a nice project to build a redaction tool specifically for PDF files. The script applies a black box and then render the underlying text as an image. The tool and its documentation are written in Python and thus is command-line only, which might be a problem for many users. It seems to understand the security concerns and thus the documentation strongly advices to verify the output of the tool. It seems to be more of a proof-of-concept than a finished tool but it exists!
3 Answers2026-06-18
I find PDF versions of manga through a variety of means. For a start, many of the older manga are now public domain, and can be found on Project Gutenberg. You can find more modern manga as one-shots by searching for the title plus ‘filetype:pdf’ on Google. Some of the online manga readers now have download buttons, although the quality can be patchy – I tend to use MangaFox (now known as FanFox) for this. HakuNeko is also useful for downloading batches of manga and then converting them to PDF. There is also a community of manga fans on the r/manga sub-reddit on Reddit, and sometimes people will share links to Dropbox folders containing PDFs of manga. As always, be careful to scan any downloaded content for malware. I tend to avoid any sites that look like they haven’t been updated since 2005 as they are likely to contain malware.
5 Answers2025-10-22
Looking for a PDF copy of the ‘Seagull Book of Stories’ can be a bit of a journey. First of all, have you checked if your university has the online resources for students on their website? Most universities provide their students with tons of literary works in online databases, including a number of anthologies. If you are a student then go to your university’s website to see what they have available.
Local community libraries are also expanding to offer online services and book downloads. OverDrive and Libby are popular platforms that allow you to sign up for access to a wide variety of eBooks, often to download and read locally. There are often unofficial or even pirated versions of academic PDFs lurking about on the internet but these have their own set of problems and by supporting the authors and publishers of work that you love you are helping to ensure the continued health of the literary world. Enjoy the hunt for your chosen version of the book.