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Originally Posted by catsittingstill
(blink). Okay now, imagine a reader that could read those A4 letter-sized PDFs.
Imagine that, like the Kindle, it could search them all for any word or phrase you like and display a list of titles with # of hits, and for each title a list of hits imbedded in the surrounding 2 sentences.
Imagine that, like the Kindle, it would allow you to highlight text and annotate documents, and that, like the kindle, it includes a "My notes and marks" file for each document consisting only of these highlights and annotations.
Imagine that, like the Kindle, you could sort your pdfs by first author or by title from the home page.
Imagine that it can carry 1.4 GB of pdfs. Or more (hopefully more).
Seriously, you aren't interested in that? You'd rather work with thirty pounds of paper copies? Because if there's one thing I find *difficult* to carry around in a backpack or briefcase, it would be all those printed pdfs.
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Just not my cup of tea. Highlighting and annotating on a kindle would be much more difficult that on paper. Maybe years down the road when we have an A4 sized reader with eInk and a touch screen you can write on like a tablet PC.
For now I just print them out, mark them up and leave them in my office. I have the electronic versions to read on my PC/Laptop if I need to look at them outside the office. But I mainly try to just work in the office and not work at home anyway, so I don't carry much stuff around. And I have the advantage that the niche I research in is pretty small so I know the literature and don't have to turn to my stack of articles very often when writing anyway.
But I guess I'm just old school, and just like having a print out and being able to highlight and write in the margins.
Back when I was reading for my comp exams I could have certainly used one as I was lugging around a ton of printed out PDFs that I was just reading once and typing up notes on and never looking at again. But I don't read journals like that any more, mainly just read the few things each year that pop up in my niche.