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1) In Golden Gate Park on Monday, I passed a mother and daughter feeding ducks. The daughter could not possibly have been older than three. I smiled at them as I walked past. When I was perhaps ten feet past the little girl she said said to her mother, very crisply, “He’s got Bob Marley hair.”
2) [Added: This is not a paid or solicited review. I hate that certain bloggers’ ethics are so loose that such a disclaimer is necessary instead of the other way around.] Can someone explain to me how I could possibly have survived until now without this software? (All the keystrokes I could have saved myself. Sigh.) “Like iTunes for Journal article PDFs,” one review I saw said, more or less. I’m importing the hundreds of articles I’ve downloaded for J tree book research, and Papers keeps track of which ones I’ve read, plus will import citation metadata and abstracts of recent articles from Google Scholar or PubMed or other databases. (Users are adding modules for new databases as we speak.) I remember, children, when doing research meant cross-referencing citations in five point type in Biological Abstracts, usually in library stacks with a malfunctioning fluorescent tube 30 feet away the sole illumination. Tools like this make ADD almost a boon in doing research, now that I can let the machine handle the organizing. Plus you can set your settings so that you click on a PDF file, drag it to a word processing document, and what appears in the new document? The properly formatted citation. The people who wrote Papers did good. I can already tell I’m gonna have to scrape up the 40 bucks once the trial period ends.
Now if President Hillabama will kindly just nationalize Jstor and Elsevier and release their contents free, we’ll truly have something.
3) I’m waiting for the second proof of the Zeke book to arrive. I thought it might get here by Friday but it hasn’t been shipped yet wasn’t shipped until late Thursday night. As soon as I get it, if there are no egregious errors, it’ll go on sale. 218 pages, 17 dollars and 95 cents at a Creek Running North near you!
Posted by: Chris Clarke
Note: A database glitch in 2008 ate a bunch of archived comments. Don't be offended if yours isn't here, or confused if the conversation seems disjointed. Thanks!
Also, President McBushagain has just announced that the Library of Congress has been deregulated and will be henceforth be administered by Elsevier as a subscription-only service, with a 20% surcharge assessed to defray the costs of the ongoing Global War on Information.
By: By Fred Levitan on 2008 03 06
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You also might want to check out the software Yep
http://www.ironicsoftware.com/yep/index.html
By: By Adrian on 2008 03 06
Aargh. Every time I decide once and for all to commit to the Dark Side, some Mac developer goes and does something like this.
And hey, you taking pre-orders for the Zeke book?
By: By embee on 2008 03 06
Does it do stuff that Devonthink doesn’t?
By: By lauredhel on 2008 03 06
Seems more focused on academic papers than is Devonthink. A more specialized tool.
By: By Chris Clarke on 2008 03 07
That mother is certainly doing a good job of educating her daughter. When I consider the probability that the mother was born after Marley died, I feel very old.
By: By Charles on 2008 03 07
I, too, would like to know if you have a button, banner, or pp gizzy for preorders, or will we need to buy it on amazon?
By: By thebewilderness on 2008 03 07
You will be able to buy it on Amazon once the ISBN trickles out into the world. But I’ll have a gizmo set up here. (And I’ll make more if you buy it here.)
By: By Chris Clarke on 2008 03 07
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