[Air-L] Reading & annotating papers on Android Tablet and integrating with Zotero

[Axel Bruns]

G'day Niels !

Count me as another happy user of Zotero + ZotFile; I did most of the reading for my upcoming book that way. I use GoodReader on the iPad as a PDF reader, and sync files between laptop and iPad via Dropbox.

One small issue: with PDFs from some journals, ZotFile/Zotero sometimes get the page numbers for extracted text annotations wrong. This is the case with journals that append a cover page to a downloaded article PDF (e.g. Journalism Studies, and a number of other journals using the same CMS backend), which shifts the page numbers for extracted text by one. Not a massive problem as long as you're aware of it and apply manual corrections to the extracted notes that ZotFile generates.



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> Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2017 13:08:36 +0100
> From: Niels ten Oever <lists at digitaldissidents.org>
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> Hi all,
> 
> Am very curious to hear your best practices for annotating papers on
> tablets and keeping them in sync with your favorite Citation and
> Bibliography tool and library.
> 
> I am a happy Zotero + LibreOffice / Sublime + LaTeXing - user who
> just obtained an Android tablet and who has the intention to stop
> printing papers in 2018.
> 
> All your recommendations on how to sync annotated papers between
> tablets and laptops are very welcome. If third party services are
> involved, I'd prefer to use servers under my control (eg Nextcloud)
> instead of third party services (eg DropBox, Google Drive).
> 
> And of course FLOSS is always better than proprietary tools.
> 
> Thanks all, and a happy end of the year.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Niels
> 
> 
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