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Old 01-13-2016, 08:18 AM   #12
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Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes View Post
I know you can mark things. I'm talking about the marking of multiple books where you can visually see information instantly based on colour and mnemonics. I need a bookmark aggregator so I can visually see what is related to TOPIC X without having to open every book to look through the bookmarks I set. Or open each and ctrl-f in each one.

I do hate PDF. It scales terribly across formats, is a storage hog and is really quite useless for textual information. For printing and layout it is great though, but the vast majority of information in texts is plain text and things should be way easier than they are.

Agreed on the search though. Searching is awesome. Aggregating the search across multiple books is not the best yet unless you're using enterprise tools and generating indexes at home which is beyond most people. But that is where the real power will lie.
I prefer ePub or even HTML to PDF, but people that play RPGs love their wonderfully illustrated rule books.

The only category that I deal with is stamp catalogs. Amos Media is the big US publisher. They make the Scott Standard Postage Stamp Catalog. Their current iteration is a custom app that feeds you a JPG of each page. These kind of collecting reference books really need to databases in this day and age instead of printed catalogs.
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