Adobe Digital Editions?

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Posted by jamesofford
May 3, 2008 at 09:40 PM

Folks:

On my MacBook, I use a program called Papers to organize scientific literature downloaded from the web. Journal articles are published in PDF format, and Papers does a pretty reasonable job of keeping the PDFs organized and searchable.

However, at work I use a PC, running XP. There is no version of Papers running on Windows. In a short posting on Nature News(http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080430/full/453012b.html) the author describes Papers, and then says there is no analog on Windows. He also quotes a spokesman from Adobe talking about Digital Editions, a program that Adobe has released to organize PDFs and other content.(http://www.adobe.com/products/digitaleditions/)

Anyone have experience with Digital Editions? Can you tell us (I am assuming the rest of the Crimpers would be interested) how well it works? How does it stand up as a means of organizing stuff like scientific papers?

Jim.

Posted by quant
May 4, 2008 at 10:47 AM

I remember trying ADE some time ago. I didn’t like the fact that annotations are saved separately in xml file. I doubt this is a standard, so all my annotations would be gone if I decide to move to another program. Also, it means that these annotations are not indexed by another search programs.

I decided to use the combination of 3 programs: UR + pdf-xchange viewer + Archivarius.

In UR I can link and manage and organize all my pdf files, make external notes in item notes pane, link to another notes in UR database, etc.

In pdf-xchange viewer I can annotate pdf files (underline, highlight, add text notes, ...), there is a comment pane, and one can navigate through them very nicely. It also has very nice search function. I decided to use my tags which precede all text comments, like mytodo, mynote, mystop, ...

All the pdf files are indexed by Archivarius 3000, the most powerful indexing program I found so far (unlike google or windows desktop search or many others, it can use morphology, search using ?, * to find part of the words). Here I can search annotations using my tags defined above.

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