![]() ![]() You can subscribe as a student at 50% off per month for about £3.00 (it wouldn’t tell me US prices but I think it’s probably 50% off $80 US/year), which includes both the Mac and iOS versions with free updates. However, if I were looking for a solution now, where I needed to both annotate and edit (but not produce accessible PFFs), I’d go with PDF Expert. It’s not nearly as good for accessibility stuff and it’s expensive, but it’s not subscription like all the Adobe stuff now. Skim is a dedicated reader/annotation tool.įor editing PDFs, I still use PDFPen Pro on my desktop as an Adobe Acrobat replacement. That’s the sort of thing you might need if you’re teaching and need to produce PDFs with proper accessibility features. What it is not good at (or wasn’t with the last version I used regularly) was PDF generation/editing tasks where the structure of the PDF or its underlying meta data needed editing. It’s hard to beat the price of free and Skim is a solid PDF reader and annotation tool. Skim and PDF Expert: PDF Reader/Annotator When I last used it extensively, I found Papers was better for searching and management, but it’s been at least 5 years. ![]() It has ways of importing from article subscription services and storing papers as attachments too. These days, it might even be possible to replace something like Papers solely with Bookends. Someone described it as the most Bib-friendly non-Bib reference manager. However, it can produce BibTeX or BibLaTeX. I always say life is too short for LaTeX, so I didn’t use it for that. It has most of the features of EndNote and there’s a iOS version now too (which I didn’t know). It’s normally $60 US with two years of updates included, but it’s on sale now at 25% off aa part of the annual WinterFest 2022. That’s why I switched to Bookends, developed by an indie developer, not a major corporation focussed on money. ![]() There is an upgrade price, but it was just too expensive in my opinion. It’s very good software, but they tended to upgrade it pretty frequently. Permanent student license is almost $150 US. I preferred Bookends over EndNote (which I used for ages!) because it was a lot cheaper. You had the option in V1 or V2 of having it open papers in a specified external reader instead. While you can read PDFs in it, a dedicated tool for annotating was, I thought better. I could easily export an entry (or multiples) vi a menu option to my biblio software from within Papers. ![]() I believe it could generate bibliographies, too, but a dedicated tool for that - at the time - was better. They also were able to auto fill-in a lot of the meta data for you, although it did need some editing (for consistency) and sometimes would fail. Previous incarnations were capable of searching for papers and then importing them via your university’s publication subscriptions. The academic subscription price is $5.00 US/month. However, V3 seems to be a very corporate-looking/focussed website with only subscription options, whereas the original versions were very reasonably priced with a permanent license. I thought the Papers had stopped development, but I see it’s still alive. On the iPad, Dropbox shares my Papers PDF repository folder (iCloud could be used probably now but wasn’t a good file thing when I set this up) and I still use PDF Expert to read/annotate PDFs. I used Papers versions 1 and 2 on the Mac to manage the PDFs in combination with Open Source Skim as a PDF reader/annotator and Bookends to generate the bibliographies. I don’t do research anymore and I hated LaTeX, but below outlines the tools I used extensively for years (and why), along with a little about their current pricing. ![]()
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