iPad + Goodreader = Unbeatable

[Mirrorlike]

Originally Posted by dmaul1114

...hit the icon so you only scroll vertically and not horizontally...

Ok that's really cool. I had no idea what that did.

[dmaul1114]

Yeah, I spent a while just figuring out what all the icons did.

That one was the most useful as I was getting annoyed by accidental horizontal scrolling when trying to change pages.

[rfog]

Originally Posted by sciredz

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkWpOV7CHms

Goodreader on the ipad with demonstration of uploading PDFs

Has anyone tried reading pdf version of magazines like Scientific American.
Do you have to scroll too much around pages to view illustrations that
cover two pages and the text around it?

It is a little difficult to read because columns and test flow, but it loads fast and reliable. It impossible to read in full screen but with zoom and panning is posible to read. For me, screen is very little.

Post written with my iPad.

UPDATE: I was talking about Scientific American. Another magazine I've tested is Circuit Cellar, and this works but more slow and one time GoodReader crashed. I prefer my Touchsmart TM2 to read those stuff because screen quality is better and rendering font is better too.

[pilotbob]

Originally Posted by dmaul1114

Yeah, I spent a while just figuring out what all the icons did.

That one was the most useful as I was getting annoyed by accidental horizontal scrolling when trying to change pages.

Yes, this is also why I disabled the horizontal scroll on my iMac's mighty mouse. My dexterity wasn't good enough to just scroll vertically when that's all I wanted.

BOb

[oncdoc]

how do you take transfer your pdf documents onto the ipad for the goodreader to open? sync ? how?

[scottjl]

Originally Posted by oncdoc

how do you take transfer your pdf documents onto the ipad for the goodreader to open? sync ? how?

read the thread. plenty of people have described the methods you can use..

[da_jane]

anyone have an idea when the app will get annotations. Trying to decide if I should buy the iannotate app.

[scottjl]

Originally Posted by da_jane

anyone have an idea when the app will get annotations. Trying to decide if I should buy the iannotate app.

don't see any mention of upcoming features on their web site. you might want to contact their support and ask them if it will have features you're interested in

http://www.goodiware.com/goodreader.html

[dmaul1114]

Originally Posted by da_jane

anyone have an idea when the app will get annotations. Trying to decide if I should buy the iannotate app.

Yeah, I wish the iAnnotate app (and some others) had free demos you could download.

I'd like to try it, but don't really want to spend the $7 on my girlfriend's iPad, especially since she doesn't seem to care much about annotating--so goodreader is fine for her.

[scottjl]

i forgot where i saw it, but there was a review on iAnnotate that was pretty negative. maybe google for it.

[adam32525]

it would be nice to launch good reader after viewing your book database from safari, if someone could add an uri that has ghttp instead of http, then it would launch good reader instead of opening the pdf in safari. I did hack this support into resources\content_server\gui.js but for some reason my ipad doesnt pull the web content from there. Any ideas how to add this?

[recordsmith]

Just to put my 2 cents in. I have both good reader and iAnnotate. Good reader wins at file sharing hands down. You can access many online storage systems with it like dropbox. However there are no note taking tools in it. It just reads files. iAnnotate is great also. Harder to get files in and out, you have to use a standalone server program on your mac. But it is great for text annotation and highlighting. Combine this with evernote and the iPad is a great mobile research tool.

[stisev]

I've used every major solution.

Kindle
Sony Reader
Allreader 2.6 (WM6.1)
Stanza (iPhone)
Converting from PDF to RTF, TXT, epub.. everything!

I just bought an iPad + Goodreader.



This is hands down the best solution I've come across so far. The iPad is the perfect reader IMO.

[scottjl]

boy, something I just learned tonight. you can basically download any file you want off the Internet using safari and good reader. go to the file you want to download, even if safari doesn't support it (even better actually), and when it doesn't load go edit the location bar, slip a g in front of the http:// and reload (just hit enter). it will launch GoodReader which will download the file and save it, regardless of format. you can download it out of your iPad using iTunes or goodreader's network access.

if another app has registered to open that file type, just press and hold it in goodreader. you'll get a pop-up menu asking what app to open it in.

[Sischa]

Originally Posted by scottjl

boy, something I just learned tonight. you can basically download any file you want off the Internet using safari and good reader. go to the file you want to download, even if safari doesn't support it (even better actually), and when it doesn't load go edit the location bar, slip a g in front of the http:// and reload (just hit enter). it will launch GoodReader which will download the file and save it, regardless of format. you can download it out of your iPad using iTunes or goodreader's network access.

if another app has registered to open that file type, just press and hold it in goodreader. you'll get a pop-up menu asking what app to open it in.

Yeah and you can mail the file by goodreader everywhere you want to, i.e. if you use evernote you can mail it to your evernote email and you can share the file on any other device you have like windows mobile phone, MAC or a windows PC.

Or you can mail your downloaded *.mobi files via iPad to you kindle this is what i did on vacation before the kindle got open internet access.

Goodreader is one of the best apps i know on iphone and iPad