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Calibre is pretty awesome, congratulations to the team. "Unfortunately" most of my books are non-fictional/science/textbooks etc. For the few fiction books I r
by kriro 13y ago
Calibre is pretty awesome, congratulations to the team.
"Unfortunately" most of my books are non-fictional/science/textbooks etc. For the few fiction books I read, I pretty much use ebooks unless it's a comicbook or maybe some fine leather collectors item.
My main problem is that I scribble in, marker (multiple colors), take note, underline and do all kinds of stuff with my non-fiction books. I researched and the options to do all that were pretty underwhelming last time I checked. If any of you know about good "texbook tools" I'd be all ears.
I think for textbooks I'll never get used to ebooks. I also like being able to flip through them quickly, scan the content on a quick flip and so forth. The one major advantage of ebooks for my typical use cases is full text search (and theoretically links to other books on quotes and so forth).
- Havoc 13y ago>If any of you know about good "texbook tools" I'd be all ears. Well the Kindle's support attaching notes to specific places in the book, but as you say its pretty underwhelming. Realistically though what you describe is not really the envisioned use of an ebook. Perhaps in future readers...
- DanBC 13y agoprint the page you need, scribble on that, stick it to the wall behind the monitor.
- nekopa 13y agoI use goodreader on the iPad the same way you use textbooks. Only on the PDFs, but you can type, highlight, write, scribble draw all over the PDF. One feature that I like is I can then export just the typed up notes, so I have my own kind of cliff notes version of a book. Good if you follow the 'How to read a book' methodology.
- kriro 13y agoThis sounds interesting. I'll check it out...have been thinking about an iPad anyways because it has good support for virtual baordgames :) Thx