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Originally Posted by xnowimcoolx
How is this different from going to https://kindle.amazon.com/?
I have other methodological problems with using ebooks in acadamia though, such as: Is a location # in a academic setting going to hold up? As a masters degree student I haven't tried it (although I've read books for school on my kindle, unfortunately), but I think the prof would want something more accessible than a number that is only available on a certain publication from a certain reader and a certain e-edition (which may or may not be available in the next 6 months because of updates or the book being pulled from e-distribution - which happened to one of the books that I purchased).
Those are the reasons I've never used my kindle for academic purposes. |
It's different because Amazon only gives you clippings from books you buy on Amazon, whereas most of what I read is papers I download through my library, and which my scripts automatically convert to mobi with proper metadata etc. THen when you import them, they automatically are assigned to the proper citation information.
Since you also have the PDF, and there is a link to open the PDF directly from the wikipage, it's very easy to find out which page a certain citation comes from when you decide to cite it. I am also working on two approaches:
one - find out how to embed page numbers in mobi files (which Amazon now does) when converting from PDF
two - find a way to convert Kindle clippings to highlights in Skim on the PDF (this is easy, if it hadn't been for the fact that through conversion small artefacts are added, so the clipping usually isn't bit for bit identical. need some kind of fuzzy matching algorithm)
(Also, again as a reader of articles, usually you don't need the page number unless it's a direct quote. This might vary by discipline though)