Ask HN: How to you administer your collection of papers/e-books?

Posted by neodypsis on Friday September 16, 2022 @10:37AM
from the ask-hn dept.

What software do you use for managing your library of papers and e-books (mainly PDFs)?

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Re:Ask HN: How to you administer your collection of papers/e... by sockaddr on Saturday September 17, 2022 @03:26AM (#32875498)

I found Zotero to be a nice way to organize large numbers of papers. But their mobile story was a bit lacking as of a few years ago.

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Re:Ask HN: How to you administer your collection of papers/e... by neodypsis on Saturday September 17, 2022 @09:49AM (#32877524)

Thank you. Exactly what I was looking for!

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Re:Ask HN: How to you administer your collection of papers/e... by tymerry on Friday September 16, 2022 @10:55AM (#32866875)

I use Calibre [0] for ebooks, and PDFs are just in a file on the desktop. I supose you could put them into calibre, but reading papers on an eink reader doesn't sound idea.

[0] - https://calibre-ebook.com/

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Re:Ask HN: How to you administer your collection of papers/e... by neodypsis on Saturday September 17, 2022 @09:47AM (#32877511)

Thank you, looks nice. Is it mainly for e-books, though?

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Re:Ask HN: How to you administer your collection of papers/e... by labarilem on Friday September 16, 2022 @11:33AM (#32867493)

Calibre for e-books.

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Re:Ask HN: How to you administer your collection of papers/e... by teejmya on Friday September 16, 2022 @12:15PM (#32868286)

+1 for Calibre

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Re:Ask HN: How to you administer your collection of papers/e... by daly on Friday September 16, 2022 @11:57AM (#32867962)

I use a "heap" data structure :-)

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