Academics work with a lot of PDF files—journal articles, scanned ILL materials, and, increasingly, historical documents available through archives such as Google Books. After my first few posts here ...

While there is plenty to love about our Macs and MacBooks (we’re still big fans of the Touch Bar!), one thing they aren’t so compatible with are PDFs. Unfortunately, a lot of documents come through in ...

Two weeks ago I asked ProfHacker readers, “How Do You Organize and Annotate PDFs?”, and you rose to the challenge. I can’t recount the entire discussion here (though it’s well worth reading through in ...

Annotating PDFs just got a lot cooler, thanks to the latest version of LiquidText. The cleverly designed iPad-only app now allows freehand drawing. In December 2015, I reviewed LiquidText, an iPad ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Annotating PDFs on a tablet is a widely-held dream in the suit community, and now Adobe’s making it a little ...

Many apps can display PDFs on an iPad; that capability is built into iOS. But only a few of them can handle annotations—such as the notes, highlighting, and other elements that you use to comment on ...