<p>For a lot of my classes I have to read through a fair number of journal articles each week. I was wondering what media other students read in.</p>
<p>Currently, I read them on my laptop using the Nitro PDF reader, and annotate as I go along. However, this puts considerable strain on my eyes, ultimately resulting in a headache, and I would like to see more of the page at any one time. I don't know, but it sort of feels like I lose grasp of the 'big picture' when I can only see around 1/3 to 1/2 a page at a time. I would prefer to print, but this would end up being costly.</p>
<p>Do you read on your computers or do you print it out? If the former, would you say reading on a tablet or kindle, etc. is better than reading on a laptop or desktop? TIA.</p>
<p>I print out every paper I wish to seriously read (for example, papers related to my research). For the other ones, I just generally read the abstract and look at each diagram.</p>
<p>I find it convenient to read the papers on my laptop, as I generally bring it with me everywhere. I haven’t had much experience with a kindle, so I can’t really comment on that.</p>
<p>But yeah, I’d say printing the paper would be the best thing to do.</p>
<p>I have tried many different things, none has worked yet so hopefully someone has a good idea. I was just reading about I Librarian and how it was a “pdf manager for scientific articles” according to the google tag. I guess I will use it this week and see how it works.</p>
<p>Try getting a monitor and hooking it up in portrait mode (you typically use one in landscape). My 17" 4:3 monitor shows full pages at a little over 100%, and if I’m reading a paper I’ll always use that monitor. Generally I prefer to print out a stack of papers and go through them with a pen and highlighter, so I can really work out what’s important and what isn’t. I just get annoyed by the people that use color when with a little bit of thought a graph could have been conveyed just as well in gray scale. =</p>