... I am a workflow optimization freak, too. Nice to meet you. This year I hope I learn to use zettelkasten and org-mode. You are a remarkable young man. Some day, I hope to see your perspective and reasonings of your workflow in comprehensive a video which covers org-mode, note taking, zettelkasten and scientific and fictional reading. Until then, if it ever happens, thank you very much for your content. You are a lighthouse in my productivity darkness! Hah
<br />Hello,<br /><br />Thanks for all the tips here. Especially k2pdfopt seems like a gamechanger.<br /><br />Do you run the k2pdfopt/ocr optimization scripts manually, or do you have them run whenever new items are synced across from Zotero?
I'm glad you like them!<br />I am currently running them manually; because depending on what size and shape (paper/books of varying sizes) I tend to handle them with a slightly different profile. Essentially I export the books/papers to a folder, then run the scripts semi-manually (one per profile) and then put them into calibre and get metadata before putting them on the ereader.
<br />I also own an Aura HD, it replaced my dead Sony PRS-350.<br /><br />I also read comics and mangas on it, so space got important. But I found out that you can change the storage, because they just use an microsd card inside. So I just took a bigger one and used dd to copy the original content over. After which I expanded the partition. The reader now even shows the right numbers in the info screen.<br /><br />Also I played around with multi boot (which used the expansion microsd slot) to boot original, android or linux. The linux would have been really nice for me as a vim user, but sadly the hardware isn't able to the use usb otg mode of the chip, because they wired it wrong for it. (Probably on purpose to make charging safer.) After which I dropped the linux usage, because I couldn't get a keyboard to work with it.<br /><br />Here is a old thread about it, don't know if the image is still available.<br /><br />https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=247920
why anyone has not actually realised that A4/Letter sized screen would be the way to go apart from Sony who charges a HUGE premium for such device I'd settle for a small Premium... yes it can be reflowed but so much is hard coded for A4/Letter e.g. research papers.
since going back to school i have been using a boox note air 10". for research papers, journals and textbooks its been heavenly (mostly pdfs). note taking with the stylus is a nice bonus. my previous unit was a sony prs.
That's a good point, and the only reason I can think of is that most of their target audience are people who read books, which are not typically A4/Letter sized.
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... I am a workflow optimization freak, too. Nice to meet you. This year I hope I learn to use zettelkasten and org-mode. You are a remarkable young man. Some day, I hope to see your perspective and reasonings of your workflow in comprehensive a video which covers org-mode, note taking, zettelkasten and scientific and fictional reading. Until then, if it ever happens, thank you very much for your content. You are a lighthouse in my productivity darkness! Hah
<br />Hello,<br /><br />Thanks for all the tips here. Especially k2pdfopt seems like a gamechanger.<br /><br />Do you run the k2pdfopt/ocr optimization scripts manually, or do you have them run whenever new items are synced across from Zotero?
I'm glad you like them!<br />I am currently running them manually; because depending on what size and shape (paper/books of varying sizes) I tend to handle them with a slightly different profile. Essentially I export the books/papers to a folder, then run the scripts semi-manually (one per profile) and then put them into calibre and get metadata before putting them on the ereader.
<br />I also own an Aura HD, it replaced my dead Sony PRS-350.<br /><br />I also read comics and mangas on it, so space got important. But I found out that you can change the storage, because they just use an microsd card inside. So I just took a bigger one and used dd to copy the original content over. After which I expanded the partition. The reader now even shows the right numbers in the info screen.<br /><br />Also I played around with multi boot (which used the expansion microsd slot) to boot original, android or linux. The linux would have been really nice for me as a vim user, but sadly the hardware isn't able to the use usb otg mode of the chip, because they wired it wrong for it. (Probably on purpose to make charging safer.) After which I dropped the linux usage, because I couldn't get a keyboard to work with it.<br /><br />Here is a old thread about it, don't know if the image is still available.<br /><br />https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=247920
why anyone has not actually realised that A4/Letter sized screen would be the way to go apart from Sony who charges a HUGE premium for such device I'd settle for a small Premium... yes it can be reflowed but so much is hard coded for A4/Letter e.g. research papers.
since going back to school i have been using a boox note air 10". for research papers, journals and textbooks its been heavenly (mostly pdfs). note taking with the stylus is a nice bonus. my previous unit was a sony prs.
That's a good point, and the only reason I can think of is that most of their target audience are people who read books, which are not typically A4/Letter sized.