{"id":1490,"date":"2008-12-24T16:59:04","date_gmt":"2008-12-24T20:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1490"},"modified":"2008-12-24T16:59:04","modified_gmt":"2008-12-24T20:59:04","slug":"e-book-readers-and-faculty-workflow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=1490","title":{"rendered":"E-book readers and faculty workflow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I agree with novelist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antipope.org\/charlie\/blog-static\/2008\/12\/the_changing_face_of_publishin.html\">Charlie Stress<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.teleread.org\/blog\/2008\/12\/24\/charlie-stross-on-sony-reader-death-of-the-pda\/\">hat tip<\/a>): electronic book readers are enormously useful for people who have to read enormous amounts of text. Stress&#8217;s context is the group of acquisition editors (&#8220;slushpile&#8221; readers) he knows, but it is also true for faculty. I bought a Sony PRS-505 earlier this year in hopes of becoming more efficient as an editor, and that&#8217;s finally happening now that I have the right tools and habits to fit with it. In the past week or so, I&#8217;ve been able to make decisions and send off e-mails on a bunch of manuscripts by going to a quiet location with the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The reader stuffed with manuscripts and reviewer compilations<\/li>\n<li>A printed sheet with a bunch of prompts for me to guide my thinking and take notes on<\/li>\n<li>A clipboard with separate compartments for the sheets of paper and pens<\/li>\n<li>My reading glasses<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>No internet, no distraction. On occasion, statistical tables are difficult to read without a printout or a full computer screen, but I&#8217;m getting used to the formatting. If I&#8217;m very lucky, I can read, think about, and prepare notes for e-mails on 4 or 5 manuscripts. But it also gives me a greater chance to get some work done when I only have a few minutes.<\/p>\n<p>A similar process works for reading student work of some types. I am a teacher who often writes far more comments than other people tell me are commonly read\/absorbed by students. That&#8217;s fine with me, but I turn student work back more quickly if I first read through a batch without commenting (and then insert comments in the files the next time I have a few hours with a computer).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t been successful yet with the reader and published journal articles (often downloadable via PDFs). But it <i>will<\/i> work with nontechnical papers I sometimes download. I suspect that if I commuted by train, I&#8217;d do a lot more work this way. But I drive, so much of my commuting time is spent with podcasts rather than electronic texts. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I agree with novelist Charlie Stress (hat tip): electronic book readers are enormously useful for people who have to read enormous amounts of text. Stress&#8217;s context is the group of acquisition editors (&#8220;slushpile&#8221; readers) he knows, but it is also true for faculty. 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