@ ebook8
Hello, speaking strictly as an undergraduate student, I must say using the eDGe to work with PDFs was one of the major reasons for purchasing the device. Below is my personal experience with PDFs and how I have used it so far (this is my first semester with the eDGe).

My school books are in PDF form. Along with my books, any handouts or additional outside materials that I collect I normally scan or save them into PDF form. I rely heavily on the eDGe to help me organize my content and the extraction of content. Before when I only had books, I did the typical student routine of highlighting, annotating, and post-it notes. One of my main difficulties was going back to review my inputs and figuring out what I did on what page. With the eDGe, all of my highlights, annotations, and post-it notes are added to the table of contents (TOC) automatically as I make entries. I can check the TOC and look for only a certain type of content, a combinations of contents (highlighted info only, highlighted info and post-it notes, etc.), or everything at once. I feel I have a deeper interaction with the material. When I interact with the TOC I can rename the entries for my bookmarks, annotations, post-its, and highlights to suit my taste and needs. It offers me a lot of flexibility in dealing with the materials.

The added bonus I get with the eDGe that I don’t get with physical books or even other digital outlets (ex. CourseSmart) is I can attach out-side sources. When reading my PDF materials sometimes I use the browser on the tablet (lcd side) to look up information on the web. Depending on the type of information, I sometimes simply “attach the webpage to the specific area I am concerned with in the PDF or I save the webpage and turn it into a document or image and link it to a PDF or keep it as additional information. I like that I can “attach (or link) one PDF to another; for example, if I am reading the core reader in a particular section and I have a handout or article that is related. I can link the core material to the specific page of the article and the link is recorded in the TOC for easy access. I also like the options if I don’t want to link to another PDF but only want a small section. The piece being reference, I can take a “snapshot of it and attach the “snapshot to my core material and when I click on it the core material remains and I can see the “snapshot on the LCD side at the same time.

Along with using the ereader side, I can use the DocToGo on the LCD side to view two different PDFs as the same time.

Above are some of the basic features I use daily in my course of study. You may want to PM done (he is part of the Entourage Staff), he can probably give you a location of a school that is near you that has the eDGe and you can possibly check it out yourself. I really like the eDGe because it give me the flexibility to decide how to interact with the information: how you name material, organize it, link it, etc. In the beginning I took the time to sit down and played with the many features to put together a plan of how to use it.

I don’t know if this helps but that’s my experience so far with PDFs.