Comments on: Why I’m Returning the Kindle DX or My Continued Search for the Prefect PDF Reader

By: My “Perfect” System for Storing, Organizing, Reading and Annotating PDFs | Librarian by Day

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:09:37 +0000

[...] been looking for the perfect pdf reader for a long time. You may remember that earlier this year I returned the Kindle DX after it failed to live up to my qualifications. Here is what I was looking [...]

By: John

John — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 02:42:23 +0000

I am torn as well. I am starting grad school in about six months and prefer to replace old school paper print outs of my academic journals, which are usually all in PDF format electronically in an e-reader. All of them seem to have certain great features, but lack all essential ones to just take the title of “hands down #1.” I like the DX because of its size, but what is the deal with old platform and not having a USB port? Everyone is worried about “cornering” the market, but no one is willing to provide a real all-in-one, user friendly, PDF friendly e-reader that will just “take over” the market. SO….after all of these post from June and July of 2011…..it seems that even until about almost a year later….the same crappy options exist. ANY real suggestions? I suppose I will just get another laptop just for internet and pdf files.

By: Guillaume

Guillaume — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 21:15:12 +0000

With Sony Reader PRS-T1 you can export notes & highlights in rtf files.

By: Katherine

Katherine — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 18:44:51 +0000

Do you highlight and annotate? I have heard that the highlight feature is sensitive. What is your take? Can you highlight using multiple colors? Can you download?

By: Katherine

Katherine — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 18:43:38 +0000

I am looking for this capability too! I was wondering if the Foxit works with the Kindle? Or with another ereader? I was looking into the sony Ereader the newest edition and it seems to have everything but I don’t know about downloadbility. It’s also quite pricey. Does anyone have any suggestions?

By: Bobbi Newman

Bobbi Newman — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 11:56:59 +0000

yes absolutely! It would allow you to export the notes from the document itself, keeping all of your notes in one place. Plus if you put them somewhere like Google Docs you’d be able to search all of them at once. Great idea!

By: Evan

Evan — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 03:06:30 +0000

I’m building a web platform with some friends, mostly to help students engage with instructors through academic material like coursenotes and study guides. Our little project to can do a lot of what you’re talking about. If we were to build an exporter for your annotations, what would make it super-rad?

Never thought of the note-exporting, but it’s a good idea. Really easy for us to build a feature to generate text from annotations and discussions in material…

By: peggy

peggy — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 03:24:56 +0000

Try iAnnotate PDF on the iPad. It does most of what you are describing.

By: sharon

sharon — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 22:48:35 +0000

Have you tried Foxit?

http://www.gearfire.net/student-tool-foxit-reader-notetaking/

By: Stacy Uden

Stacy Uden — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 20:53:45 +0000

I find your analysis very interesting. I’ve also been searching for the perfect PDF reader who’s display is large enough for me to read 1 page without squinting or pulling out hair. eInk is preferred too, as I stare at a computer for 10+ hours a day as part of job. I think 10 inch is the sweet spot, but have never been very partial to Kindle due to lack of ePub support in the past.

Wanted to point out that such a device would be super useful in the corporate world too. As part of my job, I read many “think tank” research reports from the likes of Burton Group and Gardner. Also, much technical documentation comes in PDF (handbooks, manuals, whitepapers, etc), although many are now starting to make ePub available.

I’m keeping my eye on the new Nook touch. I feel the size is better positioned for fiction readers than PDF’s, but I’d like to see one in person.

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