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iPad: Reading for Research

A number of iPad software apps support reading, reviewing, editing, archiving, and sharing documents. The increasing popularity of the device among students and faculty raises questions about the usefulness of those in the context of research: How to manage bibliographies? How to store and share annotations? How to access online academic journals?

Together with my colleagues Regina Roberts and Carlos Seligo I recently offered a workshop
where each of us demonstrated one of our most used iPad apps to manage the reading of documents. Here are my notes about GoodReader [1].

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