also, I want a version that lets me browse papers. Unlike people in academia or other research fields, I don't know the paper that I want to pirate yet.
from my lived experience, this request has been seen as absurd and invalidated by many because their lived experience is always having feeds of papers and abstracts they can start from. or how they see a browser extension that doesn’t do what I’m asking at all to be good enough (there’s some that automatically give you the scihub link to any paper you are looking at, which still puts me at square one, which paper?).
Unpaywall is a browser extension you might find useful. It provides links to open access papers, with the links appearing on pubmed pages, publisher pages, etc. A significant proportion of papers are now open access so this tool is very often useful.
from my lived experience, this request has been seen as absurd and invalidated by many because their lived experience is always having feeds of papers and abstracts they can start from. or how they see a browser extension that doesn’t do what I’m asking at all to be good enough (there’s some that automatically give you the scihub link to any paper you are looking at, which still puts me at square one, which paper?).
its a pretty basic feature though.