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Reading papers on the iPad

For the last year, I've used Mendeley as my main references database.

After I got an iPad, though, I've dropped it.

I really love to be able to read papers on the iPad.  I don't have a printer at home, and I hate reading papers on the desktop, but reading and annotating papers on the iPad is great.

Just not with Mendeley. I cannot annotate papers there, and the reader isn't really that good.

So I bought Papers for the iPad (and the desktop to be able to synchronize).

It is a really wonderful piece of software for this. I just wish that the annotations could be synchronized with the desktop as well. They are great on the iPad, but I want them on my desktop as well (damn it!).

I miss the cloud aspects of Mendeley now as well. I have to synchronize on my home computer ('cause Papers won't let me synchronize with any old computer I find nor over the internet in general), and there is no sharing of papers and annotations as in Mendeley.

I would love to go back to Mendeley, but the iPad version is a turn off for me. As soon as the iPad version improves, though, I'm likely to go back.

This entry was posted on Friday, February 4th, 2011 at 1:16 pm and is filed under Work. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

4 Responses to “Reading papers on the iPad”

  1. Jan Says:
    February 4th, 2011 at 11:18 pm

    Hi Thomas,

    Thanks for your feedback - I can assure you that we are working on improving both Mendeley's iPhone *and* iPad app. If you have been a Mendeley user before, you will know that we have very fast release cycles and continue to roll out new features as quickly as possible. Just wanted to let you know that we working full steam ahead :)

    Jan
    (jan.reichelt@mendeley.com)

  2. Thomas Mailund Says:
    February 5th, 2011 at 2:46 am

    Oh I have no doubt that you will get there, you are just not there yet ;)

  3. Keith Grimaldi Says:
    February 5th, 2011 at 9:22 am

    Useful info thanks, I also hate reading on the PC. One thing, can you not use Dropbox to have everything in sync? I don't know Papers, do the annotations remain fixed in the pdf so that they are visible when opened in another reader?

  4. Thomas Mailund Says:
    February 5th, 2011 at 9:56 am

    Papers can read files from Dropbox, but it isn't synchronized properly.

    The annotations are not synchronized.

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