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Originally Posted by catsittingstill
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.
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Yeah, that's just to each their own.
I research in a pretty small niche so I don't have a huge stack of articles and at most 3-5 a year will come out. So I save more time being able to mark up my pdfs quickly (vs. the clunky kindle interface, or trying to write small and legibly on a tablet PC) than I would with searching since I know the literature in my area very well.
And searches I can just do with the PDFs on the PC as you note, I'm at a PC all day anyway so it doesn't bother me.
But I see the appeal for people in fields that have hundreds or thousands of articles on the particular disease or medicine or whatever they're studying. Or for people who just find it easier to annotate stuff on a reader or on the PC vs on a printout. Just not my cup of tea.