Ive finally moved my teacher resources from Scribd to Tiny Rock, well kind of. All the documents plus 150 new ones are still stored on Scribd but displayed on Tiny Rock without all the Scribd guff. The benefit is that I can use the Scribd interface to manage the collection and still maintain a strong brand on Tiny Rock. Its also a lot easier to monetise the work through ads.

The technology is great, the only thing I can say is that it is a little slow. Basically I just wrote a couple of PHP pages to interface with Scribd and a bit of fancy caching to a local database to speed it up. I still have the same opinion of PHP though, its crud and encourages poor coding practices.

The bottom line, the Scribd Platform is fantastic and you would be mad to reinvent the wheel. Just use it!