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Originally Posted by dmaul1114
I'm finishing up my Ph D and will be an assistant professor next year so I was somewhat interested in such a reader.[A4 size, reads pdf natively, retains Kindle's search/highlight/annotate function]
But after more thought, I'm not so interested as I end up highlighting a ton of stuff and writing notes all over PDFs I print out. Couldn't do that with a large A4 reader--maybe if it was something more like a tablet PC.
So for now I'll just keep printing them out and keeping the PDFs on my jump drive etc. so I can pull them up if I need to look at them outside of the office--which I don't do all that often anyway.
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Well, it's your choice of course. For me, the Kindle's ability to highlight and annotate would satisfy my need to highlight a ton of stuff and write notes all over my pdfs. And the ability to search all documents for the phrase oh, say "human ribonucleotide reductase" without having to flip through a stack of papers thicker than your average dictionary--well, *that* would really have saved me some time. I suppose I could have kept the pdfs on a jump drive, but then I'd have to read them on a computer screen, and I already stared at the computer so much my eyes wouldn't focus properly anymore.
No, an A4 pdf-capable (don't care about DRM; journals don't use it) Kindle would have been my dream item for that task, and I still want one.