Adobe Digital Editions

Adobe Digital Editions is a free app for reading and annotating pdf files as well as maintaining them in an attractive bookshelf format. Sounds dull as dishwater, doesn’t it? That’s what I thought. And then I tried it. Adobe Digital Editions has a great feel to it. It’s intuitive.

Kevin Kelly has released a new edition of Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World.  It is a free download. I first read Out of Control a dozen years ago while on vacation in Switzerland. It shakes up how I think about things to this day. Out of Control is profound.

Bringing the pdf of Out of Control into Adobe Digital Editions transformed my reading experience. I immediately started hopping around from one section to another, annotating as I went. I’m doing the same with my own books, Learnscaping and Informal Learning. I am flying through the material.

Thanks to my pal Urs Frei in Zurich for turning me on to Digital Editions.