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Hi Robert
I have registered here specifically to reply to your message.
In the target audience of an ebook reader, there are many who need it for .pdf files. As researchers in any stream of science will agree, handling a huge mountain of the pdf research articles is a bigtime pain. Reading and storing the files on ebook reader solves half the problem as alll files are located on the reader...BUT the organisation part is to be tackled. I have been following ebook devices and havent bought one yet as none offers all the needed features (iRex Ereader 1000S comes close). I list two main features below ...
1) Handling of the PDF METADATA. The research articles come with metadata about 'author, year of publication, Journal in which it was published, keywords etc. I dont think any ebook reader can 'read' this metadata and offer the option to rename or sort the files accordingly...say sort by author or title etc. Please see softwares like 'Papers' (for mac) and QUOSA and u will know what to do. Perhaps a toned down version of such softwares can be simply integrated in your reader and thats all- If this can be done, i can find my article much more easily.
2) Searching a keyword in text of several pdf files together. It is not the 'filename search' that i am talking about but search in the actual text of the PDF files...and in many files at a time. That will be super!
3) Of course improvements in handling bigger files, annotation capability like iRex EReader and a long battery life will be very important.
Also, do have a look at the iRex fora to see what deficiencies other people have pointed out. I also posted a similar message there sometime back.
Hope I will see some of the above features in your ebook reader...it might just make me a more efficient in my work!
regards,
Rahul Gaur, PhD.
Umea Univ. Sweden
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