by Nick
Saturday, January 26, 2008 12:27 PM
I don't know about the rest of you, but I generally prefer to read real books, rather than online books. In fact, I've commented before about how I only own one truly "digital book". It was a book written by Dean Koontz, and at the time I bought it, it was only available online. I have since bought a signed author's copy, and lost the online version. But now I'm reviewing a new book on Microsoft Silverlight which is only available online in PDF format.
Most of the time when I use PDF's, it's for relatively brief documents that only amount to one or two pages. I read the document, and then close it. But now I'm trying to read a nearly 200 page online book, and I have no idea how to bookmark where I left off in Adobe Reader. The author of the book can add their own bookmarks when they create the PDF, but how does a reader add a bookmark... like... where I left off? Adobe Reader is in version 8 now, and either they still don't have this feature, or it's so hidden that I can't find it. Shouldn't that have been in version 1.0?