![]() ![]() It is a perfect in-between for users who need a bit more than what the iOS Markup tool provides, but don't need the power of apps like PDF Expert or LiquidText.Ī PDF app's interface can frequently appear daunting to the average user, thanks in part to the sheer number of annotation options developers try to shove inside of them, but PDF Viewer smartly simplifies this process. I suspect that it too will have trouble with scans.PDF Viewer has a clean, simplistic interface and powerful annotation tools. Unfortunately, it looks like it’s iPhone only, so it’s useless for me, though perhaps great for others. PDF Expert has a new feature that reflows the text and lets you change font size. If it can do the email notes thing well enough, I may be able to switch to it. I can easily highlight and it’s much faster. I just put in an pdf, and superficially it’s much better than mapleread. I also have kybook 3, but hadn’t tried it with pdfs. It’s kind of awkward in other ways too, but I haven’t explored the pdf settings thoroughly. It’s also really slow at displaying a page - each page shows up one quadrant at a time (latest ipad mini). SE can read pdfs, but I don’t like it for that, especially for the books for which it will let you select text but not highlight it. Most of the pdf readers annotate, but then you always have to open the annotated pdf to see them.įor epubs I use Mapleread CE and SE. But though it’s a little awkward, it does have the essential features - bookmarks, highlights and notes that I can email to myself so I have easy access to them. I’ve always used Goodreader as both a file system and pdf reader, though the interface seems to get worse with every version these days. Plus it will still probably fail for things with multiple columns and/or illustrations. If you have OCR software, it’s possible to do a better job for that part, then to use a converter such as calibre to get a better epub, but it’s a lot of work and rarely worth it. Most of the errors are consistent enough for brains to cope. The epubs for straight prose (no illustrations, columns, tables etc in the book) are sometimes tolerable if you let your brain get used to the problems. Since the scans are volunteer efforts with a wide variety of hardware and software, those aren’t always great either, especially the earlier ones. They’re automated conversions from the scanned pdfs. Sadly, epubs are almost always terrible. iPad if there are images, Kindle if you are just reading, PDFExpert if you need to annotate.ĭiane D wrote: “The ePub is horrible in iBooks! But the PDF is the exact book as scanned.” Now, dictionaries, my whole library of Pdfs, JPGs of manuscripts, everything is on my MBP and iPad disk, plus the Cloud. We are so incredibly fortunate now: I used to fill up half or more of my luggage allowance (back when there were luggage allowances!) for research trips with books, dictionaries, NewYorkers (to read for those solitary dinners) and the like. IF however, there are images, then it is useless, and I read it on the iPad. ![]() The display is much better for the eyes than conventional screens, I’ve found, and I can read 10 hours on a long haul flight without strain. For reading (and I’ve read literally hundreds of books-not for scholarship but entertainment- this way) I am a huge Kindle fan. But I not only read Pdfs but grade a lot of them on all my devices and PDFE is the best, IMHO. PDFE has one now, but only if you subscribe to a strikingly overpriced subscription model. ![]() BUT the thing that was missing was a OCR engine, since lots of articles I get from InterLibrary Loan (I am an academic and read tons for pdfs) are unconverted. Now I use PDFExpert and I’ve found it pretty terrific. Also some annotations issues that technical support blew off led me away from it. I tried Goodreads but found its handling of document saving and location to be awkward. ![]()
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