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Re: Google Scholar PDF Reader

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Post by SamBam »

Has anyone tried installing this? It says "PDFs on all sites will have a new look in Chrome."

This makes me nervous. I'm often looking at PDFs that are embedded in a page (either grad school software for commenting on PDFs, or publishers' sites). Is it going to play nicely with those? Is this only for navigating directly to a PDF?

Re: Google Scholar PDF Reader

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Post by cygnion »

Capturing and visualizing research knowledge is personally an exciting space. I feel that deep reading and absorbing content continues to be challenging, due to the ever-increasing amount of published research, rudimentary reading apps (Google PDF reader finally addressing issue with easily looking up references), and due to somewhat disconnected tools for reading and note-taking. Similar to the readers piggy-backing on the PDFjs library, I've developed an app that helps me capture and organize personal research knowledge [1]. Additionally, visualizations and customizable contexts for notes help to recall and link information.

[1] https://www.knowledgegarden.io/

Re: Google Scholar PDF Reader

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Post by glial »

lxgr wrote: post #38
resolutebat wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Huh? This tool just parses PDFs, it doesn't require academics to actually do anything.

Hm, I got the impression they store notes and annotations to your Google account, but maybe I'm mistaken.

The Chrome Web Store page doesn't say anything about annotations.

Re: Google Scholar PDF Reader

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Post by Tijdreiziger »

wolverine876 wrote: post #31
Depurator wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Zotero's V7 reader is great, built on pdfjs (Mozillas pdf reader) and adds neat things like notations and dark mode.

IIRC, pdfjs is used by Google also, and was based on Foxit? ? Does anyone know?

PDF.js came out of Mozilla, not Foxit.

Re: Google Scholar PDF Reader

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Post by lukeinator42 »

superkuh wrote: post #2

That's nice and all, but google scholar recently removed all the 'cited by' 'related articles' and other links from the HTML pages of google scholar. It was like this for about two months before they restored the functionality. It likely they will remove it again soon. Google scholar is getting worse, not better. The google devs have no idea what a typical academic's computer is like around the world. They dev for th…

Alongside this, I have found that Google Scholar's search has become noticeably worse in the last year or so. I can search for an author's name and a few keywords from a paper title and it won't show up, even if the paper has like 5000 citations.

Re: Google Scholar PDF Reader

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Post by google234123 »

superkuh wrote: post #2

That's nice and all, but google scholar recently removed all the 'cited by' 'related articles' and other links from the HTML pages of google scholar. It was like this for about two months before they restored the functionality. It likely they will remove it again soon. Google scholar is getting worse, not better. The google devs have no idea what a typical academic's computer is like around the world. They dev for th…

Are you sure this actually happened? I never noticed this. can anyone else collaborate? Maybe you installed some extension that messed with the html

Re: Google Scholar PDF Reader

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Post by buildbot »

antimora wrote: post #47

Can someone recommend an app for ipad that can read PDFs? I want to be able to bookmark using my browser but read it on my ipad. Sort of like "Save to pocket" extension.

In theory the built in files app will work for this. However, I like goodnotes, which has good highlighting snd library support. I’ve used it since grad school for reading papers.
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