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yehudin · 02-02-2009, 08:14 AM

Hello

I know that you guys must receive these types of request all the time but I feel a but lost and I just wonder if you could assist me in some issues.

As an academic, I have to read lots of information. The majority of that information comes nowadays in PDF format: its either articles downloaded from JSTOR or other databases or books that are scanned in some libraries (two pages per A4 face-sheet) and sent to the researcher for academic purposes.

Since printing is expensive, non-ecological and obliges us to carry heavyweights around, I was inquiring to purchase an e-reader device that could assist me in doing all this reading. The device in question must have the following characteristics:

(a) it must be mac compatible (I know that there are 3rd party applications to go around this issue but nonetheless it must work with a mac).

(b) it must handle PDF well. When I mean PDF, I mean many scanned books (two pages per sheet). Therefore it must equally have zooming and scrolling capabilities.

(c) preferably it would allow me to make annotations and save them as a separate file.

Which one would you suggest?

02-02-2009, 08:14 AM	#1
yehudin Member Posts: 10 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2009 Device: None	Academic needs advice Hello I know that you guys must receive these types of request all the time but I feel a but lost and I just wonder if you could assist me in some issues. As an academic, I have to read lots of information. The majority of that information comes nowadays in PDF format: its either articles downloaded from JSTOR or other databases or books that are scanned in some libraries (two pages per A4 face-sheet) and sent to the researcher for academic purposes. Since printing is expensive, non-ecological and obliges us to carry heavyweights around, I was inquiring to purchase an e-reader device that could assist me in doing all this reading. The device in question must have the following characteristics: (a) it must be mac compatible (I know that there are 3rd party applications to go around this issue but nonetheless it must work with a mac). (b) it must handle PDF well. When I mean PDF, I mean many scanned books (two pages per sheet). Therefore it must equally have zooming and scrolling capabilities. (c) preferably it would allow me to make annotations and save them as a separate file. Which one would you suggest?