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how many of you study from your smartphone? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago by ricesoup@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I'm old fashioned and learn the old way: you print what you need to study, get a pen and a highlighter, have a seat next to a table and get to it.

My current position offers me ample downtime but I'm not allowed to carry a portfolio with my study materials around and I don't like folding my A size papers (ANSI standard) because I end up ruining them that way.

A smartphone's screen is not very big and highlighting text with it is a nightmare. This is medicine I'm studying, meaning lots of graphics to locate veins, nerves...

I don't find it practical but maybe you do? If so, any tips?

I could create an epub or pdf file from the materials and use LibreraFD to access them. I don't know.

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[–] ratboy@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I do somewhat, but prefer my laptop. I think it would be helpful to be able to print or otherwise have a physical textbook, but my uni doesn't have a printer for us to use and we all know physical texts are crazy expensive.

For my phone, I use the NaturalReader app. Its text to speech, but you can highlight and annotate the text as well. If you tap on a word, it'll highlight the whole sentence so you don't have to do the tedious drag-to-highlight thing. Not sure what it does with graphics, however. In that case I'd try out Zotero for mobile. Not sure how great the app is on the phone but I like it a lot in my laptop.