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Just as an aside, you could try Zotero - I use it on my laptop and phone and it works pretty well for me. There is a dedicated app as well. https://www.zotero.o
by sghi 10y ago
Just as an aside, you could try Zotero - I use it on my laptop and phone and it works pretty well for me. There is a dedicated app as well. https://www.zotero.org/ https://www.zotero.org/
- pahool 10y agoZotero (and Mendeley) addresses the problem of storing and organizing the content that you have access to, much like paid products such as refworks and Endnote. But, unless I am misunderstanding, it doesn't solve the problem of access to content. It's an excellent research tool though.
- dredmorbius 10y agoI'm not sure there's any one tool that fits my needs, and I've looked at a few, Zotero among them. My understanding is that it's more a _bibliographic management_ tool. There's also Calibre, which seems like it's a close solution, though that too is problematic, particularly at scale. Another problem is that my laptop (as opposed to tablet) isn't particularly useful for reading formatted documents -- PDFs can't really be viewed _either_ one-up or two-up, and FBReader, which I like on mobile, formats ePub and similar eBook formats poorly (too wide, insufficient paragraph separation, unfamiliar controls), which is frustrating as well. The tablet's much superior for _reading_ but even worse for _organising_ material.
- dalke 10y agoI use Zotero to store the PDFs, movies, text files, and other things related to my research. It has an option to either link to an existing file or to copy the file into its own archive. It can also extract text from those files, for use in a text search. I use it on a laptop, not a tablet. I see there are Zotero apps for a tablet. I have no experience with them.