I just wish Google Scholar would be a bit more open in terms of debugging why a site isn't picked up by the platform
Google Scholar PDF Reader
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Re: Google Scholar PDF Reader
#52That'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
Yes, I confirmed it with 3 other people on IRC a couple months ago. I didn't know google scholar had restored it until I checked right before I wrote the above post. I thought the links were still gone. They had been the last time I'd used google scholar about 3 weeks ago. Back then I also confirmed it myself first using 3 different computers, 4 browsers (with JS disabled), coming from 3 different IP addresses, both logged in to google and logged out. I probably wouldn't have started writing the post at all if I didn't think they were still gone.
I figure in addition to the feedback they received from me (and presumably others) at the time they saw a drop in usage and restored the functional version. But they'll try again.
Re: Google Scholar PDF Reader
#53Does anyone have a research paper reading tool they're happy with? Zotero is what meets most of my needs but I wish I could organize the papers faster and I wish the annotation tools were better. AI-assisted reading is a plus too.
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#54Can 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.
I really like PDF Expert for this. It's free. They have a subscription for some editing/advanced features, which I haven't tried.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pdf-expert-editor-reader/id743...
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#55Does anyone have a research paper reading tool they're happy with? Zotero is what meets most of my needs but I wish I could organize the papers faster and I wish the annotation tools were better. AI-assisted reading is a plus too.
What does AI assisted reading mean to you?
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you sure this actually happened? I never noticed this. can anyone else collaborate? Maybe you installed some extension that messed with the html
Yes, I confirmed it with 3 other people on IRC a couple months ago. I didn't know google scholar had restored it until I checked right before I wrote the above post. I thought the links were still gone. They had been the last time I'd used google scholar about 3 weeks ago. Back then I also confirmed it myself first using 3 different computers, 4 browsers (with JS disabled), coming from 3 different IP addresses, both…
I think you are wrong - I don't recall seeing this. Screenshots of scholar on twitter from feb, jan, dec all show those links
Re: Google Scholar PDF Reader
#57I just wish Google Scholar would be a bit more open in terms of debugging why a site isn't picked up by the platform
I would also be interested to know how they decide to pick up a site. I was very surprised to learn that a technical note posted only to my website was picked up somehow. (I am a mathematician and so there are other things on my site, but it’s some custom static site generator thing and I’m still astounded).
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#58Can 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.
Zotero w/ their first-party storage is the best I've found.
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
Zotero's V7 reader is great, built on pdfjs (Mozillas pdf reader) and adds neat things like notations and dark mode.
I love zotero. The combination of annotation, highlights, document management and a healthy plug-in ecosystem are just killer for me. It feels a bit dated sometimes, but I'm yet to find anything that comes close.
It looks a lot nicer after the recent design update!
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#60Has 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?
My guess (as someone whose company makes a PDF extension for Chrome) is that it may intercept embedded PDFs as well. Sometimes sites use iframes or the like, and those get intercepted. But if the PDF is displayed through some sort of third party tool then it would be unaffected. Just my 2¢!