Read a PDF on one screen, write notes on the other?

I read alot of .pdf textbooks on the eDGe. I take alot of notes. What works for me is that I reversed the screens, putting the eInk side on the right (I am right handed). I open books on the LCD with RepliGo (as suggested by cheyennedonna) and then take notes on the eInk side as a journal. It works extremely well. The downside is that I cannot annotate the books directly, but I dont care about that. Reading and taking notes simultaneously is excellent on the eDGe. To take it one step further, it is also great to email the .pdf to myself and then import it into a Microsoft OneNote notebook.... but thats just me. I am a major fan of OneNote and use it extensively.

I always run radiotime in the background. You can then carry on with your other activities.

One thing I am hoping to figure out someday is annotation on .doc or .pdf files on the eink screen. Seems like that should be a built in feature.

The music players are technically an Android "Service" rather than "Activity", as once the music starts it doesn't interact with the user via the screen. Multiple Services are allowed to run at the same time, but only one Activity per screen.

I knew there was an answer to this. Thanks fgruber.

Originally Posted by fgruber

This is the way I do this:
Suppose you are reading a book on the eink screen and you find a problem or derivation in a page that you want to do. Then you can use the snapshot tool which will take a picture of that page and put it in the LCD (alternatively you can open the pdf on the LCD as well using pdf to go)
then change to journal on the eink and do your derivation. Make sure you save the journal.
then go back to the pdf on the eink side.
Then go to the library on the LCD and find the journal you just made. Press on the journal name and wait . This will bring a menu. Choose attach.
Then on the eink screen you need to select a text where you want the link to the journal to reside.
After this you will get an icon in the position of the document that you selected. When you click on it the journal will open.

So I decided to keep the edge and so far it seems like it was the right decission, but I was trying this method of attaching a jornal file to a pdf and I ran into a problem. The pdf file that I have does not have selectable text, that is I think the pages are saved as image files, so when I click attach and I receive the message to select text I can't actually select anything, so there is no way to attach. Is there any way around this? Thanks for the help.

I don't think so, as you can't select images, and without any other text on the page, there's nothing to anchor the link. You can check with Tech Support if they know of a way.

I'm not sure of the process, but other forum members may have suggestions for running the PDF through some sort of an OCR process, which might give you a text version that you can then use...

Yes I had the same issue. If there is some text that you can OCR then that would be the solution. Then you have something to select.

Originally Posted by Jezreel

So I decided to keep the edge and so far it seems like it was the right decission, but I was trying this method of attaching a jornal file to a pdf and I ran into a problem. The pdf file that I have does not have selectable text, that is I think the pages are saved as image files, so when I click attach and I receive the message to select text I can't actually select anything, so there is no way to attach. Is there any way around this? Thanks for the help.

Originally Posted by Jezreel

The pdf file that I have does not have selectable text, that is I think the pages are saved as image files, so when I click attach and I receive the message to select text I can't actually select anything, so there is no way to attach. Is there any way around this? Thanks for the help.

I recommend making a feature request, both on the forum (for discussion) and with Entourage directly (via the help web form).

I think I would transfer the file to your computer and convert it if you have Adobe Writer.

Here's an idea for a workaround: if you were to do OCR on an image, the resulting text can be stored in the pdf, with the characters lining up. How is this done? You could probably then have dummy text behind each image, just to give the software something to select and attach a journal to.

OK I just tried this in Adobe Pro Extended 9. You can convert it from an image to text. It did mess up some of the special characters but was easily fixable. Then saved as pdf.