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PDF Annotations - what are you using?
So I'm just starting to use Calibre, and while it would not be my preferable "Reader" application, I believe it is going to become so due to how it handles annotations.
The fact that I can annotate from within the content-server reader and make it accessible on any platform is very useful. It still has many disadvantages with annotations (which I can get into if anyone want to discuss), but with all the pros/cons, I'm still leaning towards it. However there is no ability to annotate PDF documents. I'm here asking what other people do for PDF annotation? I looked into several options and the one that looked best to me from a device compatibility/sync/sharing perspective was Hypothes.is. However there is a big limitation which is that it works with a browser extension. This means it can't be used on browsers which don't support extensions. They offer a "proxy service" that is supposed to deal with this, but it doesn't work for two reasons: 1) If your content-server is password protected, it doesn't seem to function with it 2) Even without password protection they seem to have moved away from an open proxy a year or so ago and so they only requests to certain well-known sites. This won't really work for access to documents on personal server. So any discussion on this is welcome. thanks |
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Don't use PDFs in a browser, ever.
PDFs are not ebooks. Choice of a PDF viewer that's good for annotations depends on your hardware and OS. Also can depend on the kind of PDF. |
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What rot, barely a day passes when I don't look at a PDF via Firefox or Edge. Right now while typing in Firefox here, I have the following half read in Edge: https://carnegieendowment.org/files/...sment_2020.pdf, and last week's NSW respiratory disease epidemiology report bookmarked to read next.
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I use Xodo for reading and annotating PDFs on the iPad and Android.
I am curious if it’ll meet your needs If not, here are some good recommendations: https://pctechtest.com/best-pdf-annotation-apps |
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Greetings, for pdf I use Foxyt Reader (free). It allows to export as text file the highlights or annotations as text file. That allows to take it to other note tools like obsidian.
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