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Originally Posted by catsittingstill
My past experience has been that I take enough notes right on the printed page that just bookmarking things would leave me with a bewildering hodgepodge of bookmarks, with no idea where the important bits regarding....
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That type of stuff is why I still doubt I'll ever move to electronic devices for my academic pdf use.
It just seems like it will always be quicker and easier to highlight and write notes in the margins (which I do a TON) on a printed PDF, and faster to pull it out of the well organized file cabinet and flip through it and find the important bits.
I could see a tablet device with an A4 or larger screen eventually making the writing notes and highlighting about as easy--currently I struggle to write small and neat enough to put notes in the margins on the tablet PCs I've played around with.
But it will always be a bit slower to flip through pages in PDFs (or set up a lot of specifically named bookmarks when annotating it the first time) to find the important bits down the road. So I remain skeptical that I'll personally find a device that makes me want to eschew just printing out, marking up and filing away important articles related to my research or teaching.