I'm told that iAnnotate on the iPad is pretty impressive. On Jun 10, 2010, at 10:54, Adam M. Goldstein wrote:
> On Jun 10, 2010, at 9:06 AM, Michael McCracken wrote: > >> Touché. :) >> In fact, despite my original motivation for Skim (I don't like wasting >> paper) - I still often print things, especially if they need a lot of >> annotation. > > Perhaps it's a generational thing and I'm not well-adapted to working > directly from the computer screen---but I find that I can usually read on > paper more effectively. I do think that there are cognitive benefits to > reading on paper, for instance, being able to see the whole page at once, > knowing how much more you have to go in the paper by the number of pages left > to go, and other design elements of print media. Also my annotations often go > all over the place, arrows pointing everywhere, scratch writing in the > margins, and so on. > > But lately, when I have had to read papers line-by-line, Skim is better---I > can zoom in really close and then put in notes, underline things in red, etc. > Then I have an outline of the paper in the Skim notes. > > My comment about the clipboard notwithstanding, there is no question that > digitization is epochal--- > >> However - the specific benefits I see for reading papers on an iPad are: >> >> - don't use paper > > OK, but paper is a renewable resource, I don't know about the power used to > run the iPad or mac. I'd like a foot-pedal, like on a sewing machine, that > charges the laptop/iPod etc. battery. Or a hand crank. Just a thought... > >> - capacity - I can carry all the papers >> - assuming Skim notes - searchable notes (this has been very useful >> for me with Skim) > > These, with "searchable papers" below, are the real meat and potatoes. > Reading one thing reminds me of something I read somewhere else, I go to that > thing, which I have in my vast "Papers" folder, I need to look up a word in a > dictionary, I have the one on my iPod Touch and the one built into OSX, and > if I can get online, almost any other dictionary or encyclopedia I need; and > then I can look up books in the library, search PubMed, go to the author's > web page, etc. Plus all of the W3C manuals, the last 300 years or so of > natural history literature via BHL, etc., etc. This is the kind of thing I > spent months doing in grad school, including having to photocopy everything I > needed to keep. The connections between these various sources are preserved > by way of the BibTeX records and Skim notes, and recording them is almost > completely integrated into the process of exploring the literature, web, etc. > >> - easy to send a copy of an annotated paper to many people > > For instance, three sections of Philosophy 110, or everyone on the tenure > review committee. > >> - zoom can be very handy for charts n' graphs. > > I have been working on transcribing Darwin's manuscripts---we have high > quality scans, ie, 6000 x 8000, which means I can look at a single dot of ink > or a letter in a 2-inch square window at 2000 times actual size. Looking at > the original manuscript, i.e., the sheet of paper in the library, this kind > of detail is impossible. The idea of annotating the manuscripts with skim > notes, for instance, to create a manual for decoding Darwin's handwriting, is > exciting, to say the least. > >> - searchable papers > > (see above) > ------------------ > Adam M. Goldstein PhD, MSLIS > -- > [email protected] > http://www.shiftingbalance.org > http://www.twitter.com/shiftingbalance > -- > http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=180621 > -- > (914) 637-2717 (msg) > -- > Dept of Philosophy > Iona College > 715 North Avenue > New Rochelle NY 10801 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate > GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the > lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo_______________________________________________ > Bibdesk-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
