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Ask HN: What device do you use to read academic papers with?
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#2iPad plus iAnnotate. Syncs with Dropbox and works brilliantly. GoodReader would work as well apparently.
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#3Laptop, but in all honest I am still waiting eagerly for a good and fast enough e-ink second monitor, reading on a Kindle is such an improvement over a regular screen but the sluggishness is horrible ...
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#4GoodReader on iPad
Re: Ask HN: What device do you use to read academic papers with?
#5not a kindle.
their stupid idea to make it just small enough to not fit a page from a pdf, and the completely broken scrolling killed it. even tried the larger one. same problem.
they may have prevented the two people that would have read a pirated pdf of a novel instead of buying it from amazon. but it cost them the entire academia market.
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#6Laptop, but in all honest I am still waiting eagerly for a good and fast enough e-ink second monitor, reading on a Kindle is such an improvement over a regular screen but the sluggishness is horrible ...
I have a Kindle but I would never use it to read academic papers. Reading a PDF on Kindle is a real pain as
1. The screen size is too small for a readable, fit-to-screen experience
2. Scrolling is too sluggish to even try, you don't want to scroll horizontally and vertically on a PDF which is zoomed a few levels
Currently, laptop works much better I'd say.
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#7Kindle DX, the discontinued one with the really big screen. It fits a whole page nicely.
One day its battery is going to die, and I have no idea what I'll do then.
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#8SONY DPT
Re: Ask HN: What device do you use to read academic papers with?
#9not a kindle. their stupid idea to make it just small enough to not fit a page from a pdf, and the completely broken scrolling killed it. even tried the larger one. same problem. they may have prevented the two people that would have read a pirated pdf of a novel instead of buying it from amazon. but it cost them the entire academia market.
It's hit or miss, but sometimes Calibre's conversions for native formats is pretty good at getting the conversion+scaling right. My partner is a chemist and she's had a lot of luck with various ACS publications rendering right after a conversion
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#10Mendeley. Not the nicest UX, but it syncs, has tags relevant for academic papers and can export everything as a bibtex file.