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I don't suppose anyone here has a Kindle/other e-reader and uses it with PDFs? I know you can drag-and-drop PDFs into it, and I'm wondering about ways to annotate them once they're there. I use the marvellous Mendeley to highlight and make notes with PDFs on my laptop. I'd be persuaded to get a Kindle if I could do something similar with a program for that.
Hmm. I have a kindle and know you can tag and make notes on books--but I haven't tried. I mostly just read fiction and have no need for such notes.
I have a Nook and have highlighted things (to try out the feature). I know you can add notes, but I haven't tried. Supposedly, it's described here: [link]
If you email the pdf to your kindle email with "convert" in the subject line, I think maybe you can add notes like it's a Kindle book? I will test it today.
Emailing a pdf to your kindle still incurs a fee. With the newest kindle, you can download the pdf to your computer, attach the kindle to your computer with the USB charger, and then just copy the pdf to the "documents" folder on your kindle. No conversion needed. 0I see no reason why notes would not work on a pdf as well as any other type of document, but not 100% sure.
You can also have amazon convert the pdf via your "free" email address, download the converted file to your computer and transfer it manually to the kindle. I could do that via my December 2009 Kindle no problem.
I just tested a .doc file I emailed to [myname]@free.kindle.com, using "convert" in the subject line. I moved it onto my new version Kindle using wifi. It has Kindle-style location numbers and can be "highlighted" and notes made on it like any native Kindle text. I will say I find typing on the Kindle nearly impossible - it has a qwerty keyboard but the keys are tiny to me - but then, I am an old lady who doesn't text on phones either. The professor I am working with highlights stuff in the Kindle texts and then uses the web notes interface (which syncs with the Kindle) and types the associated notes on the computer.
We just had a rather puzzled discussion about how to cite from Kindle texts in MLA style. No page numbers.
Thanks for the tips! It sounds like it's possible to do what I need to. I shouldn't have major problems typing on it, as I have a tiny qwerty keypad on my phone and I take notes using that. Still, I'm going to borrow a friend's Kindle for a week, to make sure I'm really going to make use of one (and to help me persuade The Girl it's a good use of my limited funds). But it does sound like it could work for me.
We just had a rather puzzled discussion about how to cite from Kindle texts in MLA style. No page numbers.
That's a good point. Must look up how to Harvard-style cite from docs in electronic format.
pertinent to today's discussion and involves using a software program I LOVE LOVE LOVE on the mac (and has been recently introduced on the PC)...
annotations on kindle and using scrivener:
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