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Zotero for Android available for beta tests

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Re: Zotero for Android available for beta tests

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post #19

If I mostly want to keep my own document repository (pdf, word, etc) with search ability over all included documents and, maybe, the ability to do notations, is this the right tool? If not, any suggestions?

I used to use qiqqa for exactly what you describe but I think zotero has won this space

Re: Zotero for Android available for beta tests

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

If someting isn't paid for it has no value?

If something has value of its own, then it will be purchased regardless of whether other unrelated products are or aren't purchased. Thus, in order for people who don't find iPhones particularly valuable to contribute zero market share to the independent market for phone software, it can only be the case that phone software has no value.

So e.g. Hacker News has no value? Or Linux? Or sex without prostitution?

Re: Zotero for Android available for beta tests

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post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It all comes back to revenue: Android has twice the market share but users are about as third as likely to pay for apps / in-app purchases so the market is a lot more even than it might seem. I don’t think that’s because android users are significantly more inclined towards piracy but rather that there are really two groups, and the ones who bought the cheapest phone they could find contribute market share only for f…

> and the ones who bought the cheapest phone they could find contribute market share only for free apps. This can't really be true; it would imply that the actual value of all phone apps is zero, and the only reason people pay for them is that they need to get rid of some cash.

It’s just that people who don’t have money don’t spend it. If you have a ton of senior citizens getting lifeline phones, it doesn’t tell you much about the spending habits of Android users who aren’t on fixed incomes.

Re: Zotero for Android available for beta tests

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post #53

Just took it for a spin. Interface looks decent. I love that I'm able to invert colors aka PDF dark mode cheat. But I don't seem to be able to add annotations to a PDF and sync that back to my desktop, which is a bummer. I'm sure that will work in the future, and then I will finally be able to read and annotate papers on a tablet. Okular set a high bar for what a good PDF Reader can do, this is surprisingly decent. T…

Librera can automatically crop whitespace. And Adobe Reader has Fit Visible (Ctrl+3), which most of the time is good enough.

Re: Zotero for Android available for beta tests

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post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If something has value of its own, then it will be purchased regardless of whether other unrelated products are or aren't purchased. Thus, in order for people who don't find iPhones particularly valuable to contribute zero market share to the independent market for phone software, it can only be the case that phone software has no value.

It will only be purchase by people who can afford it and who find it worth the price. If someone doesn’t purchase it, there is no implication that they see zero value in it.

...and if there's piracy involved, then even people who can afford it and find it worth the price may not pay for it.

Re: Zotero for Android available for beta tests

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Anyone aware of a self hosted alternative?

Isn’t Zotero already self-hosted?

I've installed the app linked in TFA and it immediately asked me to sign in or sign up without any option to configure my own server address. But since it's still a beta version, the custom server/local only options are probably not implemented yet.
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