Thread: What type of PDFs do you consume most often?
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Old 03-20-2017, 05:21 AM   #18
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Originally Posted by hyphenreader View Post
I have other questions in mind, but was starting with this one. Mind sharing your reasons for using Goodreader/PDF Expert? Annotation?
Well, I'm a GoodReader hardcore user with facsimile PDF (mostly Pulps, Verne and my own scanned facsimile from my own old books). I have PDF Expert as second tool (for example if I need to do a lot of handwriting PDF Expert is way better than GoodReader because the "continuous" mode it has.

However, GoodReader for the win:
  • Exquisite internal file manager
  • Can connect to any remote server, SMB, AFP, NAS, and an incredible large etc.
  • Synchronization across servers. And yes, in this case it synchronizes the content with the notes, and not the reading position (1).
  • Different ways of synchronization (bidirectional, from only, to only).
  • Annotate PDF. Most important for me is handwriting annotation.
  • Add/remove/extract parts of a PDF
  • Auto generation of a new copy PDF if you annotate it.
  • Can get a pdf from an URL, or navigate and automatically detect the PDF embedded in the page.
  • Read only Microsoft Office documents.
  • Extract the text of the PDF.
  • Annotation format is the PDF standard one, can be viewed in any other viewer and continue annotations in other programs and read the annotations made from other programs.
  • PDF page preview (opens thumbnails of the open PDF).
  • Opens multiple PDF at same time.

(And yes, I use *all* of them).

A wish list for GoodReader:
  • Continuous/paged reading mode (like PDF Expert). Now only reads page by page.
  • "Continuous" handwriting annotation (like PDF Expert).

(1) One of the reasons I'm not using Hyphen as my ePUB reader in iOS is because it does not automatically syncs the book reading position. You need to sync all the library and if you have a lot of books that is very inconvenient. My other elections for iOS, Marvin, does a good synchronization but only the book position and not the notes/reading statistics (and has another annoying bugs that seems aren't resolved by the developer), and MapleRead does a perfect font rendering but lacks automatica sync...

My two cents.
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