Cote wants to be able to download all PDFs about a topic easily. I absolutely concur. I tend to grab many, many PDFs of research papers and other documentation. Invariably, one will lead to another which leads to another and so. Before I know it, I've downloaded 10 different PDFs to my Reading folder on my desktop.
I would much rather have a tarball of PDFs which I could download once. Hmmm, you know what might be interesting would be a Web service of some kind which you could send PDFs to and then it would automatically package them up for you when you are ready to download them.
You could have a Bookmarklet which would the send the URL of the PDF to the Web service. It would grab that PDF in the background and put it in your storage directory. Once you are done looking around, you could go to the site, ask it to package them up for you and voila, a tarball or zip file would be ready for you to download.
Posted by Josh at April 26, 2006 10:53 PM