The joy of electronic books

Re:The joy of electronic books by Silentio on Saturday June 13, 2009 @06:41PM (#656583)

The only problem with digital copies like this is that I can't underline. Maybe it's just the habit of underlining, but I can't read as well (academic reading) when I can't underline key points, specific words, and particularly interesting passages.

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Re:The joy of electronic books by drewcrawford on Saturday June 13, 2009 @07:27PM (#656617)

I've found Preview's (Mac; built in) annotate feature to be a great portable way to highlight inside PDFs.

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Re:The joy of electronic books by Silentio on Sunday June 14, 2009 @11:18PM (#657876)

I agree that Preview's annotate feature works well. Still, there something about the physical process of underlining words that helps me connect ideas together as I'm reading.

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Re:The joy of electronic books by jimmyjim on Saturday June 13, 2009 @07:33PM (#656622)

I may be wrong, but I believe there's a feature in Kinde 2 DX that allows you to do that.

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Re:The joy of electronic books by fortes on Saturday June 13, 2009 @08:08PM (#656644)

Not sure about underlining, but highlighting and annotating has been there since Kindle 1.

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Re:The joy of electronic books by elq on Saturday June 13, 2009 @08:08PM (#656643)

the DX cannot highlight or annotate pdf files, at least not currently.

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