Wednesday, February 17, 2021

Printing when they don't want to let you

 Let's say that you have read-only access on JSTOR or find something on Google Books. Be thankful you have that. But you really need a copy of the article, and you can't download it (at least not for free).

You've already checked for the author on academia.edu but you struck out.

This isn't the simplest thing in the world, but it works.

Step 1: Go to the Google Chrome Store and install the Print Friendly and PDF extension.

Step 2: Go to the beginning of the article.

Step 3: Click on the Print Friendly extension. Choose Pdf, then Download your PDF.

Repeat for each needed page.

Chrome will give each download the same name, but if you save them all in the same folder, it will rename them sequentially e.g. page, page(1), page(2) etc.

Now, for each page this will give you a 3 to 4 page pdf with some extraneous pages before and after what you want, but somewhere around page 2 or 3 will be the page of the article you desire.

Yes, this requires repeated clicking. But it beats paying $34 for downloading one article.