How to Get 30 Days of Scribd for Free, No Additional Conditions
I’m a big Scribd fan, mainly because I enjoy crawling around the site looking for all kinds of funny PDFs and other books that I wouldn’t normally read. And since my Californian friends and I are creating a quarantine book club, getting free access to the service – which is actually free access, not a free trial – was the perfect time for this.
This is Scribd’s offer for those battling coronavirus boredom: use our service to enrich your mind and we won’t annoy you by forcing you to sign up with a credit card. Just click on this link and sign into your Scribd account (or create a free one). That’s all.
While I’d rather have Scribd just open its doors to everyone, period, for a month or so, setting up an account for free access for a month – and no doubt some marketing emails after the fact – isn’t the worst deal – off. And as I mentioned, this is a free 30 day service with no strings attached. You will not be converted to a paid subscription after the fact like a regular free trial.
However, I experienced one nasty quirk with Scribd’s suggestion, which I’m not sure if it was intentional or not. Basically, if you’ve ever owned Scribd – for example, paid for an account, or used a free trial earlier if I’m right – you’re not eligible for the promotion. At least I couldn’t get it to stick to my old Scribd account. I had to sign in, go into account settings , delete my account, and then create a new account (using the same email address) to get 30 days of free access.
Annoying? Not much, but now I can read whatever I want for a month. Bring a book club.