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Originally Posted by Rhialto
I am an immunologist by profession;
The below link describes an option at PubMed.gov to download academic papers as epub files. I was able to open the files in Marvin reader app on my iPad.
I assume I could import these epubs into Calibre and use Calibre to manage these papers. Has anyone else tried this use of Calibre?
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/about/pubreader/ |
I downloaded one of the test papers as an epub and put into a vanilla Calibre library. I got the title, the tags, the synposis, the publication date and an ID that links back to the nih page automagically, but couldn't see how to get the authors or the publisher (but I didn't try very hard) - so I copy/pasted them from the text.
The 1st screen shot is the result as far as the library is concerned
The 2nd screen shot is what I see in the calibre epub viewer, the links to the bigger views of graphs and expanded table seem work
One thing you will need to be aware of is that Calibre will truncate file names in the library - this is not a problem per se, but initially it can be disconcerting.
Start slowly with a few articles to get a feel for calibre and its capabilities. Calibre is very flexible, almost to a fault, and there are normally several ways to 'tackle ' the same issue - the trick is to find the one that suits your needs.
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