PDFs, love them or hate them, are here to stay as a rich document presentation medium and with the introduction of online services like Scribd, Docstock, even Slideshare and Issuu - static files are getting quite interesting.

Scribd this morning posted a series of year-end Top 10 lists, offering a good view of some of the most interesting and widely-read primary documents on the web this year. As dry stuff goes, this is really interesting. We've embedded those lists below. Keep in mind the company's recent partnership with rich-media lookup service Apture and these docs become not just popular, but also full of multimedia on demand. How many of these hot docs have you read this year?