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I have been wondering: if I create files that I can see on the PE, are those files exportable in a form that a student could view without an eDGe? In other words, can the annotations be part of a new PDF or epub, or are they stored separately in an edge-specific format, not in the base file?
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On the ereader side, your annotations are stored within the library. You can export them as a pdf image file only.
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What I am hoping but can't quite sort out from the documentation is that I can create such files and post them on the class website so that students can use them. (Right now instead I post lists of links, plus they have the readings: not integrated.)
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When they are exported from the library as pdf image files, your written annotations and highlights are included but any links you have included are not live.
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I'm also crossing my fingers that I can find a way for students to submit assignments in a form the ereader side can annotate (which they usually do in MSWord or in OpenOffice) maybe by having them submit rtf files and then converting them to epub with Calibre? Is that correct?
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You could do rtf convert to epub. But that seems like a lot of work to me. Both MSWord and OpenOffice can export directly to pdf. Were I you, I would experiment with different margin widths in an office program and export to pdf, then read on the Edge, to arrive at an optimum margin width that gives you adequate and easy room for annotating. When annotating pdfs on the edge it is best to choose the zoom setting you want to work at and stay there because when you annotate at one zoom level and change to another you won't see your annotations at the second zoom level. So, if you begin with an office document with wider margins and then export to pdf you have part of the zoom/annotating thing already looked after.
If all your students create their work with the same margin space you should be able to 'zoom' through your marking.
... and that I can send them back an annotated file where they'd be able to read my comments. (Preferably not an epub,
When you are finished marking/annotating you simply export that file as pdf. This will be an 'image' pdf file, showing all your written comments.