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ziegl027 · 10-10-2009, 09:54 PM

I'm interested in this thread because I am largely interested in a reader as a scientific article management tool, too. Well, and knitting patterns. I had initially discounted the DX because you couldn't take notes on PDF's. Heard from a variety of sources that you CAN, as long as you convert the files. I pooh-poohed that since I didn't want to bother converting files. Turns out that most things that I was looking at like Sony Touch (unless you want to spring for an IRex) will suck at PDF's unless you convert them, anyway.

So I'm back looking at Kindle DX. If I have to convert the mother-loving files regardless, I'd just as soon have the larger format. My eyes aren't getting any better as I age.

Many of the "you can convert the files" folks praised Calibre as both file conversion and management/organization. How happy have people been using it to manage scientific journal articles? Note that I do not really need to manage files for endnotes and such, it's for professional keeping-up-with-the-Jones' reading, not research documentation.

10-10-2009, 09:54 PM	#7
ziegl027 Addict Posts: 264 Karma: 764 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Minnesota Device: Sony Touch, Kindle DXG	How about Calibre? I'm interested in this thread because I am largely interested in a reader as a scientific article management tool, too. Well, and knitting patterns. I had initially discounted the DX because you couldn't take notes on PDF's. Heard from a variety of sources that you CAN, as long as you convert the files. I pooh-poohed that since I didn't want to bother converting files. Turns out that most things that I was looking at like Sony Touch (unless you want to spring for an IRex) will suck at PDF's unless you convert them, anyway. So I'm back looking at Kindle DX. If I have to convert the mother-loving files regardless, I'd just as soon have the larger format. My eyes aren't getting any better as I age. Many of the "you can convert the files" folks praised Calibre as both file conversion and management/organization. How happy have people been using it to manage scientific journal articles? Note that I do not really need to manage files for endnotes and such, it's for professional keeping-up-with-the-Jones' reading, not research documentation.