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GoodReader Notes

What is GoodReader

GoodReader is an iPad (iPhone) app. Cost: $4.99 For reading and annotating PDFs

(primary). Storing any document/file. Sharing any document/file. Syncing any document/file.

“a swiss army knife of awesome” –Mashable

It was released primarily as a PDF reader/annotater at first, but now has taken on a life of its own.

Download, read, annotate, manage, organize, access, and sync just about any file.

Access your Gmail account and see all emails with attachments that have an @Action or Read/Review label. You can then scroll through/read through each attachment.

Store your photos at box.net. Access them from GoodReader i.e. organize them into folders and view slide shows there.

A few features

Exceptional pdf viewer. Mark up and annotate original document

or a copy (keeps original pristine). Text extractor scans any document and

views the current page as plain text. Night “mode” for night reading – fully

customizable. A myriad ways to share, upload,

download and sync either the doc and/or all annotations.

Supported files

pdf doc/docx + pages ppt/pptx + keynote xls/xlsx + numbers html files jpg/png etc. (but why) audio files (but why) video files (again – not sure why)

Uses

Research papers for students/academics

Teaching tools and documents for eductators

Meeting/seminar/conference papers/handouts

Manuals (pdfs) for anyone Paperless orgy – with all your docs Sign digital forms and documents

(including pdfs) Download files from web

For example …

Interface

Clean Logical Mostly intuitive (some instruction

needed) One screen (not annoying) Split screen (efficient) Works in portrait and landscape (no

mean feat)

Annotation Tools

View/Navigation Tools

Quick Tips

Single click/one finger to view toolbars Double click/one finger to zoom in Single click/two fingers to zoom out Swipe to toggle between pages Pinching with 2 fingers works 5 finger ‘pinching’ only works if multi-

tasking is off

Tap zones

Developer

JAMM Interviews Yuri Selukoff of Good.iWare (from May 2010)

Russian developer Programming started as a hobby.

Other Similar Apps

PDF Pen … $14.99: www.smilesoftware.com

PDF Expert … $9.99: www.readdle.com

Adobe … free: www.adobe.com

Other decent or half-way decent iPhone/iPad pdf readers/annotators:

http://appadvice.com/appguides/show/pdf-annotation