Papers by ReadCube

Au début lors de l’importation des PDF depuis Papers3 vers READCUBE mes 7500 documents ont mis beaucoup de temps à se charger. Il y a une fonction d’ailleurs pour downloaded les images des PDF tous ensemble. Ensuite le processus est très rapide.

I am evaluating it to replace zotero as it has no iPad app (in theory there is one in development but has no release date). I use pdfexpert for annotations normally. Annotating with the pencil is a total pain. There is no undo button, not cognisant way to erase handwritten notes (why not just have an eraser like everyone else), the pencil tools are overly complex. One additional tool would be the ability to add blank pages to take more handwritten notes. I am very disappointed as I hoped to find a way to have a decent workflow. Instead I’ve wasted my time importing and learning how to use it (I used papers3 in the past before abandoning it for other reasons).

It needs still to include or to make some features more stable such as syncing annotation highlights between different operating system. But overall it is a great app and I believe the small issues will be solved. ReadCube team is trying to be helpful and fast responders to the issues we encounter.

Very cool

I've used ReadCube since it was in Beta in 2011-2012. It has such a good possibility to be a fanatic app. Infuriatingly the developer isn't putting the resources needed to maintain the tablet version. I've submitted multiple bug reports, and unfortunately nothing ever sends to get fixed. Tech support will just day they can't reproduce the errors and their are many. It's really disappointing seeing a good research tool go downhill.

iPad app impossible to use. Cannot download pdf or sync pdf that’s already downloaded in desktop terminal

It used to work well but after some recent updates the hand-writing annotation becomes a total disaster. It over-smooths your handwriting without asking. Now it is even more frustrating that the things you write just disappear by themselves. Please fix these very fundamental issues!

Full crash.

This is a pretty good app. I wish that we could display page numbers on the main screen.

I tested about 8 different products and this was the only application that allowed me to work on a browser, Windows desktop, and iOS app. Unlike other apps it is easy to annotate documents and export the annotations. The free trainings and office hours are very useful and helped me understand the product more. Almost all the PDFs I imported were able to locate the sources and pull in the metadata allowing for easy citation. The searching is great as well letting me do database searches as well as in text searching. Clearly is the winner for academic research needs!