[quixotic]

Hi,

I am a university student in Australia and am seeking advice on software. I have recently bought a Acer Aspire netbook for the purpose of:
1. reading pdf university notes and taking relevant notes in the lecture.
2. reading economics books of personal interest and taking notes, highlighting passages, making bookmarks etc.

Currently I will have notes/books in a pdf and in a word document my notes. This is a slow, awkard way of making notes and absorbing material, more time is spent fiddling than thinking, annotating and absorbing. Most of my sources are pdf, the ones that aren't are creative commons epub books.


I tried to use adobe's digital editions today and whilst it is a neat piece of software when you have a few pdf loaded in once a semester at university has finished I can expect to have well over 100 sets of lecture notes in addition to notes for other contact hour and studying. With so many documents I feel it will be too hard to organise texts in any more depth than bookshelves, there is no ability to tag documents or organise them in subfolders apparent.

Also whilst I can make bookmarks I cannot seem to make highlighted text nor annotations that actually appear on the document. Finally I am concerned that any bookmarks/annotations I can make will only be legible when read via the reader, if I choose to view or print the original pdf the notes won't be there.




So in summary I am looking for a ebook reader or other software that satisfies my requirements for bookmarks, annotations, highlighting, sufficient organising and ability to save the bookmarks/annotations/highlighting I make and of course have the bookmarks/annotations/highlighting appear when printed.

Does Adobe Reader offer this ability? I notice I can highlight and make speech bubbles but when I print the notes surely the speech bubbles won't show up.