MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - Question about Kindle from Academic Researcher

dmaul1114 · 03-12-2009, 04:27 PM

Yeah, it's not good for letter sized PDFs from scholarly journals (I'm a fellow academic).

The iRex readers do them well, and you can write on them as their like a table pc etc--but they're pricey.

Personally I prefer printing them out and marking them up by hand, sticking post it flags in them etc. Just quicker and easier to have around IMO, easier flip to a certain table, put 2 or 3 side by side on your desk to compare finding tables etc. etc.

But the iRex definitely would do the job for people more willing to adapt, I just prefer printouts for that. The highlight and annotating is just quicker and easier (and I have a hard time writing small and legibly on tablet pcs).

As for the kindle, the highlighting and annotatiting kind of sucks (at least on the K1) it's slow to bring up the boxes, typing stuff on it is slow since you type with your thumbs etc. But it's moot since it won't display most scholarly pdfs since they're image files basically with lots of tables and figures typically--but again not really an issue on the iRex readers.

03-12-2009, 04:27 PM	#6
dmaul1114 Wizard Posts: 2,300 Karma: 1121709 Join Date: Feb 2009 Device: Amazon Kindle 1	Yeah, it's not good for letter sized PDFs from scholarly journals (I'm a fellow academic). The iRex readers do them well, and you can write on them as their like a table pc etc--but they're pricey. Personally I prefer printing them out and marking them up by hand, sticking post it flags in them etc. Just quicker and easier to have around IMO, easier flip to a certain table, put 2 or 3 side by side on your desk to compare finding tables etc. etc. But the iRex definitely would do the job for people more willing to adapt, I just prefer printouts for that. The highlight and annotating is just quicker and easier (and I have a hard time writing small and legibly on tablet pcs). As for the kindle, the highlighting and annotatiting kind of sucks (at least on the K1) it's slow to bring up the boxes, typing stuff on it is slow since you type with your thumbs etc. But it's moot since it won't display most scholarly pdfs since they're image files basically with lots of tables and figures typically--but again not really an issue on the iRex readers. Last edited by dmaul1114; 03-12-2009 at 04:30 PM.