John,

I have the same problem with PDFs , unless you spring for some pretty expensive 
software to do that.

Scott ford
www.identityforge.com

Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll 
understand. - Chinese Proverb


On Feb 4, 2013, at 12:13 PM, John McKown <[email protected]> wrote:

> The main problem is a way to "mark up" the BM or PDF versions so that
> you can share the marked up text. Depending on the software used,
> bookmarking may also be an issue. The Kindle reader can display PDF
> and you can also do bookmarking and mark up. But it is difficult to
> share those. Okular on Linux can also do bookmarking and marking on
> PDF files, but again they can't easily be shared. Well, perhaps if the
> PDF is on a shared, writable, disk (NFS or CIFS or sshfs even).
> 
> On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 11:03 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> In <[email protected]>, on 02/02/2013
>>   at 10:54 PM, Ed Gould <[email protected]> said:
>> 
>>> I hate PDF's and BKS ... Especially when I am not sure exactly
>>> what I am looking for. With a real manual I can put a finger in
>>> the current location and go wondering about the manual and if
>>> needed I just go back to where my finger is.
>> 
>> With proper formatting and proper viewing software there's no reason
>> that you couldn't do everything with BM and PDF that you do with dead
>> trees. It would be more productive to convince IBM to improve the
>> tools rather than to push for restoring paper copies.
>> 
>> --
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