Milos Rancic wrote:
If I understood well, the content of the online
edition of Britannica
became free (as in "free beer", of course). They are putting some
irritating screen with recommendation to buy access to their edition
every 10 seconds (or so), but, in fact, it is possible to copy-paste
the content somewhere else and read it. Hm. Wikipedia doesn't have
that irritating screen. (OK, banner is irritating, but it is not of
that kind ;) )
Does anyone have some more informations about it? Also, may someone
(who owns some newer edition of Britannica: paper or electronic)
check, let's say, this link [1] and confirm that this is the complete
article.
[1] -
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/268173/Hittite-language
I checked a larger biography, and it looked complete to me. Note that it
uses ajax to load article sections as you scroll to them, so you have to
scroll up and down the page to trigger all the ajax loads before you can
copy the text out.
The following Firefox bookmarklet may be useful:
javascript:(function(){Darwin.Upsell.deactivate();})()
Put it in a bookmark in your toolbar and click it to get rid of the
annoying box. It doesn't come back until you go to another page.
-- Tim Starling