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... summary of my post buried in BB ...
Here is a bit of "cut and paste" from a post I made on this topic in a class. I think it would be a fun to run a survey of how students store and read digital material in our courses. Some time ago, I decided I would never again print out my digital material. I travel a fair amount and it became impossible to lug around my hard copy binders ... So, I went "big" and made a commitment to all digital / all the time ... here is how I am attempting to manage my digital data:
Here is a bit of "cut and paste" from a post I made on this topic in a class. I think it would be a fun to run a survey of how students store and read digital material in our courses. Some time ago, I decided I would never again print out my digital material. I travel a fair amount and it became impossible to lug around my hard copy binders ... So, I went "big" and made a commitment to all digital / all the time ... here is how I am attempting to manage my digital data:
- Several years ago purchased the full version of Adobe Acrobat (with academic discount comes to around $150-ish, I think) which allowed me to highlight and annotate. There is also a wonderful piece of software I bought last year called Bluebeam PDF which does about the same thing as Adobe Acrobat and the education pricing is around $75 - see http://www.bluebeam.com/web07/us/store/education_store.asp . Bluebeam works GREAT for annotating PDFs on touchscreen laptops ... more on that below. I know there are a bunch of freeware PDF annotation options, but most I found to be junk.
