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iPhone 4 for scholars

Useful post by Michael Clarke on the merits of the iPhone 4 for 
scholars:

http://j.mp/967imP

Note this paragraph in particular:

2. Annotation. Annotation is here. As David Crotty observed a few 
weeks ago here in the Scholarly Kitchen 
<http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2010/06/10/apples-iphone-4-and-ios4-what-do-they-mean-for-publishers/> 
, you can now read and annotate PDF files and store them in 
iBooks. You could annotate PDF previously with 3rd party apps, 
but now it is natively supported. It still needs some work and 
iBooks is not the ideal mobile repository for downloaded journal 
articles, but the basic tools are there and they will get better. 
You can now annotate a PDF while reading on your iPhone and have 
that PDF synchronized to your desktop, laptop, and tablet PC. 3rd 
party software like Papers <http://mekentosj.com/papers/>  are 
also working on better management of articles for mobile devices. 
There are some obvious challenges around interoperability, but we 
are getting very close to functionality that is "good enough" for 
most scholars. What's noteworthy here is that the legacy format 
of PDF keeps getting brought forward for new platforms.  PDF is not static.

Joe Esposito