Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 37, No. 545.
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        Date: 2024-04-12 21:37:02+00:00
        From: James Rovira <jamesrovira@gmail.com>
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 37.544: extensive downloading & scholarship?

I do that too, but the books I get in print I scan to .pdf, make text
searchable, and put them with everything else in one Dropbox folder.
Actually, my teenage daughter Grace has been doing my scanning in exchange
for favors or money for about five years now. She just scanned
Adorno's Aesthetic Theory for me in exchange for driving her to deliver 
a slushy to her boyfriend at work. Then I read the material using the 
iAnnotate app on my iPad. I can annotate on that app exactly the same way 
I might a printed book ("dog ear" pages, underline, highlight, write notes in 
the margins or above text), and on top of that, email my annotations to myself. 
I put myemailed annotations in a Google mail folder -- allows me to text search 
all my annotations on any given key word and find the books or articles they
were annotated in. The email includes the book title and page numbers of my
annotations with related text.

I don't think nearly enough about differences among foreign sources.
Disciplinary differences I tend to see as being fairly transparent within
the books and articles themselves.

I'm not sure how to answer your other very good questions. I don't know
that it's changed things so much as sped them up. I'm less likely to lose
track of something I bookmarked in a printed book, and word searches are
easier and more reliable than book indexes.

Jim R

On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 2:41 AM Humanist <humanist@dhhumanist.org> wrote:

>
> As standard practice I search for, usually find and download an
> extensive range and amount of articles and books, take what I need from
> them, buy this or that book that I actually need to read through or
> otherwise consult repeatedly and file the material away according to a
> scheme I've worked out. I assume this is more or less what most of us do.
>
> My question is this: how has the practice I've just described affected
> your scholarship? To what extent has it changed your disciplinary reach?
> How has it affected your conception of the discipline in which you are
> working? Do you poach or make a strong attempt to understand foreign
> disciplinary contexts, their standards and ways of working?
>
> Comments eagerly awaited.
>
> Yours,
> WM



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