Uploading PDF file and providing download links to them

Question

One of my clients has a number of documents in PDF format that he wishes to provide download links to on his site.

One solution I have been toying with is to treat them similar to images and upload them through the media uploader provided with WP and then provide a named link to the file.

I would like to know if the above method is a good way or is there a better way to do this. Moreover, from a maintainability point of view dumping PDF files with images is not exactly the best way to manage these files so it would be good to partition these files into a separate directory.

I am also interested to know if there are any plugins available to do this.

Thanks in advance.

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