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Re: Google Scholar PDF Reader

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Post by dunham »

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.

Primarily I've been using Zotero and Notability. They each have "save to" on mobile. Zotero has a chrome plugin that requires the desktop app to be running. They both optionally support a dark mode for reading in the dark.

I like the experience of reading in Muse.app on the iPad. It's a nested whiteboarding thing, but also can act as a PDF reader. (It'll let you pull out chunks of the PDF and put it on your canvas with a link back into your document, if that fits your flow.) I often read on my phone, so this is not an option for me.

Apple Notes and Muse slow down with a lot of ink. For taking a page full of notes I'm using Notability.

I've heard good things about GoodReader, but haven't played with it in years.

Re: Google Scholar PDF Reader

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Post by gnicholas »

I've never seen so many light/dark modes before. There's Device Mode, Light Mode, Dark Mode, and Night Mode. AFAICT Device Mode follows the browser/device's current setting, Dark Mode makes the sidebar dark but doesn't change the PDF, and Night Mode darkens both the sidebar and the PDF. I wonder how they decided to have so many modes?

Re: Google Scholar PDF Reader

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Post by hedora »

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.

Square icon with up arrow sticking out of it -> Save to books.

It seems to work in MacOS and iOS; an iCloud account is probably required.

Re: Google Scholar PDF Reader

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Post by thristian »

wolverine876 wrote: post #50
Tijdreiziger wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

PDF.js came out of Mozilla, not Foxit.

Yes, but I think Mozilla may have started with code from Foxit.

The PDFium plugin that was part of Chrome was based on C++ code from Foxit.

PDFjs was written in JS from day one, and (as far as I know) was not based on any previous PDF reader.

Re: Google Scholar PDF Reader

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Post by gillesjacobs »

jinay wrote: post #53

Does 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.

Mendeley beat Zotero for me with automatic pdf renaming, organising and its highlight and note taking tools in the reader.

The Elsevier account integration is disgusting though, and I hate the idea of using all Elsevier product.

Re: Google Scholar PDF Reader

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Post by smeeth »

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…

Check out https://openalex.org

I'm pretty optimistic that by the time google scholar really goes to shit they'll be good enough to pick up the slack.

Re: Google Scholar PDF Reader

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Post by wolverine876 »

thristian wrote: post #64
wolverine876 wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, but I think Mozilla may have started with code from Foxit.

The PDFium plugin that was part of Chrome was based on C++ code from Foxit. PDFjs was written in JS from day one, and (as far as I know) was not based on any previous PDF reader.

Maybe that's what I was thinking of. Thanks.

BTW, I didn't mean they necessarily used the actual Foxit code, but it was a starting point maybe reimplemented in JS.

Re: Google Scholar PDF Reader

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Post by walterbell »

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.

> bookmark using my browser but read it on my ipad

MacOS and iPad: DevonThink paid app with sync via P2P, WebDAV or cloud services.

Optional local mirror/sync of web pages and PDFs, with full text search.

Re: Google Scholar PDF Reader

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Post by jdeaton »

jinay wrote: post #53

Does 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.

Paperpile is fantastic and you can make a shared folder with your lab/team.
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