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Re:WorldBrain's Memex: Bookmarking for the power users of th... by fit2rule on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @01:53AM (#23231654)
Inasmuch as every PDF still has the URL to the original page, for my uses - I'd say yes, it is bookmarking.

Its not like I'd cut the spine off every book in my library and create an index out of the covers ..

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Re:WorldBrain's Memex: Bookmarking for the power users of th... by fauigerzigerk on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @04:23AM (#23232588)
Apparently only Firefox saves the source URL. In PDFs saved from Safari or Chrome on macOS I can't find the URL anywhere. Maybe I'm missing something.
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Re:WorldBrain's Memex: Bookmarking for the power users of th... by fit2rule on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @06:11AM (#23233207)
Interesting. For me, its right there on the bottom-left of the footer, always.

/tmpᐅ pdftotext Add\ Comment\ -\ Hacker\ News.pdf - |grep http

https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=23232588&goto=threads%...

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Re:WorldBrain's Memex: Bookmarking for the power users of th... by fauigerzigerk on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @06:31AM (#23233329)
Weird. It's not in there when I store it.
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Re:WorldBrain's Memex: Bookmarking for the power users of th... by cilefen on Monday May 25, 2020 @12:14PM (#23302454)
Try checking "Print headers and footers" in the print dialog.
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Re:WorldBrain's Memex: Bookmarking for the power users of th... by fit2rule on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @03:45AM (#23244349)
Lets compare versions just so I know this feature isn't going away any time soon.

Safari 13.1 here, MacOS 10.14.6...

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