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Originally Posted by dmaul1114
I read a ton for work since I do research and work in academia.
But I'm not big on electronic versions of scholarly journal articles etc. It's just easier for me to be able to directly highlight on them write in the margins etc. It's just quicker and easier than the annotation tools in ereaders or pdf reading software on a pc etc.
And I like having several spread out on my desk at once, vs. viewing one at a time so I can compare findings across studies easily etc. etc.
I love my ereader for novel reading, but it would take something like an e-ink tablet pc that I could write directly on my electronic documents just the same as I could a printed out PDF to get me to switch for my work documents.
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I agree with you for the most part.
I do like electronic versions of scholarly articles because I keep them in my reference citation manager (EndNote) where I write down summaries of what I read. However, much of the act of reading I do on paper. Some of it I do in the digital format on the LCD screen but digital annotation has not yet replaced physical annotations and markings yet.
I like the digital versions mainly for storage, accessibility, and searching. It's very easy to lose paper copies and hard to categorise physical paper copies. This is where digital outshines paper versions.
To me, digital versions and paper copies come together hand-in-hand. Neither one will replace the other for me.