Ubooquity to organize them, tablet to read.
Ask HN: What device do you use to read academic papers with?
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Re: Ask HN: What device do you use to read academic papers with?
#62A printer. What I need is an e-ink device that lets me take notes on it and is large and fast and shows the images in color. Zooming would make it superior to paper. It's just not there yet. I tried to read articles in NCBI's ebook format on my kindle but you can't hop back and forward easily on a Kindle and note taking is of course not an option.
Have you tried a tablet? I'm really happy with my iPad for academic paper reading. Yes, eInk is very nice, but today's tablets are good enough for reading as well. Plus, it's a different kind of reading compared to, say, a novel. I tend to read academic papers quite quickly to glean the main bits of information. For leisurely reading, paper or Kindle would be better.
I also use my iPad for 'academic' reading. When an epub is available, I use that with Marvin (I wish it worked with pdfs!). And for pdf's I use GoodReader. I can highly recommend both!
Oh, and for storing my pdfs and epubs I use Calibre. Also a great app.
Re: Ask HN: What device do you use to read academic papers with?
#63I find it much more difficult to read long sections of academic text on a computer or tablet than on paper. When I need to read a paper thoroughly, I print it out.
For storage I use Papers (http://papersapp.com/). Highly recommended if a little pricey.
Re: Ask HN: What device do you use to read academic papers with?
#64Re: Ask HN: What device do you use to read academic papers with?
#65A printer. What I need is an e-ink device that lets me take notes on it and is large and fast and shows the images in color. Zooming would make it superior to paper. It's just not there yet. I tried to read articles in NCBI's ebook format on my kindle but you can't hop back and forward easily on a Kindle and note taking is of course not an option.
I really wish e-ink triton was updated and deployed on a Linux (not android) tablet with a decent resolution and enough RAM to mark up PDFs, render markdown, use standard tools like git for version control and libreoffice with any other tools you wanted to install. Even a cheaper Chinese tablet but with a decent e-ink screen would be really useful but they just don't seem to exist.
Re: Ask HN: What device do you use to read academic papers with?
#66this device looks nice: https://getremarkable.com/
But $400? Seems incredibly expensive for a device that is just able to display text and take notes.
$400USD is with 40% off too! and it's really low ppi, not even up to my personal minimum of 350ppi which really makes for decent, clear reading.
Re: Ask HN: What device do you use to read academic papers with?
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
But $400? Seems incredibly expensive for a device that is just able to display text and take notes.
$400USD is with 40% off too! and it's really low ppi, not even up to my personal minimum of 350ppi which really makes for decent, clear reading.
PPI really depends on the viewing distance. You're usually very close to a phone but much further away from a 27" monitor and further away still from a 65" TV.
I'd say for a large 13-inch ebook reader, a 167ppi grayscale display (for anti-aliasing) is pretty good.
Until very recently all ebook readers were around 167ppi (most of them 6 inches diagonally) and most people were OK with it.
The high prices are due to the eInk panels, they must have a very low yield at large sizes making them very expensive.
Re: Ask HN: What device do you use to read academic papers with?
#68this device looks nice: https://getremarkable.com/
If only it had a backlight. I use my eInk device mostly when reading in the dark.
Re: Ask HN: What device do you use to read academic papers with?
#69Re: Ask HN: What device do you use to read academic papers with?
#70Device is a MacBook Pro running Papers [1] to organize and read references. Works well with over 18,000 references and their pdfs in my database.