I find the Sony to be very cumbersome when synching
I use mendeley as a citation manager and have it organized in folders by author’s name and the file names are author-year-title.
Because Mendeley doesn’t import highlights and notes from Sony (or any other external tools), I have Mendeley’s library saved on Dropbox and then have it as a synched folder in Sony App.
So far dropbox has been the only way I’ve found that syncs highlights with my iPhone, iPad, iMac at work, MacBook at home. I mainly read, highlight and take (very few) notes on the Sony.
Few problems -
I have more than 700 articles. The way it is structured, if I have to go an author whose name starts with S, I have to tap 46 times on the Sony to get to the correct folder because the folder view on the device only allows me to advance 1 page at a time.
Because I am not in Japan or the US, I don’t have access to the iOS mobile app. Currently, the reader is synched to my MacBook Pro, so if I forget my it or when I am in the office, I have no way to sync the files.
I mostly highlight and don’t really take notes. When I do, it is only a few words at a time. Even with that, I’ve gone through 11 nibs and two styluses in the past 8 months. I had to replace the stylus because the nib broke inside it. Of course, the nibs are horrendously expensive; they rub down really quickly even when I rotate the stylus when highlighting to minimize the wear.
Synching takes forever. It takes good 5 minutes to sync 1 or 2 files.
That’s why I was wondering if Boox works with mendeley. If it doesn’t, I need a lightweight PDF highlighting app that syncs with a dropbox folder like pdfexpert.
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Originally Posted by EmilThelonius
What are your reasons to change from Sony to Onyx? I assume that you work in academia, because you use mendeley?
As far as the experiences show here in the forum and on youtube: other apps then the build in apps from onyx tend to be a lot slower, and are not that stable – but I might be mistaken in the case of mendeley. I do not own an onyx so I cannot try it.
But as an academic I really like the stability and workflow of the Sony rp1. Even more with the mobile app. So I have mendeley on my mobile device and when I want to read something, I simply send it to the rp1. As I have my mobile phone always with me, it is a matter of seconds. So I would be interested in your reasons considering a change  |