ananasNov 2, 2023

To people who this reaches, and who read scientific papers, what media you use for reading those?

If you know people who could improve the results in your followers, please boost for visibility.

Computer screen
81.4%
Printed on paper
11.8%
Printed academic journals
0.7%
Other
6.1%
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Show threadananasNov 3, 2023

Ok, this blew up more than I thought it would, by around 400 answers! Thanks everyone for replies.

The poll got started when I started thinking about how I read quite a few papers (in physics, mostly) which have a bit... antiquated formatting for a paper. I mean not even nice to read on paper, not just that it sucked on computer screen which I most often use. (Though I have my remarkable too when I want to scribble notes, recommended)

Well, I got led into a rabbit hole like I often do.

Show threadananasNov 3, 2023

I am not really happy about any of the options I have available. And the rabbit hole led me as far as trying to get a second hand pinenote since they aren't available @pine64eu @PINE64 , wink wink.

I think it is easier to read papers as paper, and I want to take notes. Remarkable is good for some of this, but it's not really that good with papers and getting them in and out of the device (especially the way I'd like).

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Paper is wasteful, and I keep losing track of them (my brian doesn't handle that). Computer screens are often "good enough", but papers don't really take any advantage of the digital form, even though -- as expected -- the majority seems to use their computers for the papers.
Nov 3, 2023 at 5:16pmWeb
Show threadananasNov 3, 2023
So, I was thinking that there might be a middle ground somewhere, and well. I'm still trying to figure some things out, but an open device like pinenote, with some academia/education-specific software could maybe strike a perfect balance. Hacking on my remarkable (which wouldn't be exactly new to me) could solve the problem for me, but I was left wondering if there could be a more general solution.