jarandhel

Whenever I go researching a subject, I tend to pull out every book in my library that deals with it. Even tangentially. This creates a large pile of books that are, for a time, "homeless". Usually they end up in a stack on a desk, table, couch, or even the floor somewhere. Frequently they are large, unwieldy, and end up falling over. In any case, it's just not pleasant to work with them that way. But I've never found a better solution. Not for physical books, anyway.

Enter the digital age. An entire library's worth of books on my iPad for me to refer to whenever and wherever I wish. And when I start a new research project, rather than having a stack of books to drag around with me, I can just create a new "bookshelf" in the bookman app on my iPad (basically a folder, though the program doesn't use that term) and move any books I'm using as reference there. I have to say, having that ability is awesome and really brings me back to my initial feelings about the iPad as a near-magical device.