Im looking for an Ebook reader to help organize my PDF files (books) on my Mac. I was wondering what everyone else uses/ recommends. Im mainly would be using this for medical books. It would be nice to put in a term and be able to search all the books. It would also be nice to separate the books according to topic or look at them all as one big group. The later two requirements aren't extremely important, would just be nice.
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Perhaps you could try the Preview app that comes with every Mac, you can check some YouTube videos or use the help option in the menus to learn the basics, you can highlight, write notes, put bookmarks, you can even put your signature in the documents with Lion, is pretty neat, you should give it a try.
You can also use Nook Study, you can search, make notes, mark sentences, have it read for you (He doesn´t have the most pleasant voice 
), and separate the books by subject.
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/nookstudy/index.asp
), and separate the books by subject.http://www.barnesandnoble.com/nookstudy/index.asp
Ebook reader to help organize my PDF files (books) on my Mac?
I think you need a PDF tool, that can let you organize.
But you need a great ebook reader that can search all the medical books for you.
Is this one you need? http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/stanza/id284956128?mt=8
I think you need a PDF tool, that can let you organize.
But you need a great ebook reader that can search all the medical books for you.
Is this one you need? http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/stanza/id284956128?mt=8
Thanks for all of the great info
Also is there a way to get ibook on the mac? I really like how simple it is without all the extras that a lot of the other put into their readers.
Also is there a way to get ibook on the mac? I really like how simple it is without all the extras that a lot of the other put into their readers.
Not really sure if this fits what you are looking for, but for manually organizing and converting e-books I use Calibre. It's free and is found here:
http://calibre-ebook.com/
http://calibre-ebook.com/
I just got Calibre and tried to convert a CHM file to EPUB so I could read it on my iPad.
The CHM has tons of pages (textbook) and is about 23mb. When I convert the CHM in Calibre the output EPUB file is only 40kb and all it has is the table of contents...and they don't link to anything.
Does anyone know why this might be happening? Calibre downloaded all the Metadata and cover art for the book from Amazon just fine.
The CHM has tons of pages (textbook) and is about 23mb. When I convert the CHM in Calibre the output EPUB file is only 40kb and all it has is the table of contents...and they don't link to anything.
Does anyone know why this might be happening? Calibre downloaded all the Metadata and cover art for the book from Amazon just fine.
Calibre is probably the best choice for general purpose ebook management since it handles a zillion formats and allows conversions.
The question about CHM to ePub might see better answers over here: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=166
The question about CHM to ePub might see better answers over here: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=166
I organise a lot of scientific research paper PDFs using this app, Papers
http://www.mekentosj.com/papers/
Might be useful for your medical books too.
http://www.mekentosj.com/papers/
Might be useful for your medical books too.