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[jdurall]

I've been doing work on the Charlie Stross Laundry books, and it's been invaluable to have the manuscripts on my iPad. Keyword searches, cut-and-paste, highlighting, and bookmarks.

When I did some work on Decipher's LotR game and on GoO's Game of Thrones RPG, I had the same luxury of electronic copies of the manuscript (though in .txt files rather than ebooks), but they were equally useful.

Good Reader

[semioticity]

I use Good Reader on my iPad, which now allows for highlighting and annotation. Even better, you can save out your annotated copy, so you can send it to others. Since it doesn't affect your pristine original e-copy, I wonder if this won't give rise to a new renaissance in marginalia.

[rob_donoghue]

It's happened to me more than once, though in fairness the reverse (where I have the ebook, but realize I want a physical copy to highlight, share or flip through) has also occurred.

[theliel]

For referencing I still prefer phsyical books and book marks. especially RPG/Wargame books where I need to basically have 3 pages open at the same time.

[r_fisher]

An iOS project on my to-do list is a PDF viewer that allows me to have multiple pages from multiple PDFs “open” and quickly switch between them. Perhaps like the multiple page support in mobile Safari. It’d be nice to enable split-screen too.

You can get close in GoodReader by putting all the relevant PDFs in the same folder. The other thing you have to do, though, is split out any pages that are in the same PDF into separate PDFs, which requires knowing beforehand what pages in a PDF you are likely to want to have “open” at the same time.

Unfortunately, learning iOS programming is going slower than I anticipated, and it competes for time with my other hobbies...like gaming.

[theliel]

I found myself doing this a few years ago with PDFs and training materials.

It was just so much easier to slurp out what I needed for citations or new documents that only having paper docs became a burden.

[janewilliams20]

On the few occasions when I use a hard-copy reference book rather than an electronic one, it's a right pain not being able to copy/paste sections into my notes. Reference on one monitor, note-taking on the other - there's some other way to work?