{"id":166,"date":"2007-10-12T19:27:39","date_gmt":"2007-10-13T03:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/?p=166"},"modified":"2007-10-12T20:44:43","modified_gmt":"2007-10-13T04:44:43","slug":"pdfs-are-media-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/archives\/166","title":{"rendered":"PDFs are media, too!"},"content":{"rendered":"

While I have gotten quite moved in and adjusted to my\u00a0iPhone<\/a>,\u00a0one thing has come to leave me wanting.\u00a0Apple<\/a>\u00a0has long advertised\u00a0iTunes<\/a>\u00a0as the “hub” for your personal media. You can rip or purchase your music, shows, and movies and sync them easily to your shiny new iPhone or iPod with ease. It’s quite impressive, in fact, how seamless it all works. PDF files, on the otherhand, aren’t considered first-class citizens in the media world (at least how Apple views it).iTunes allows you to add Adobe\u00a0PDF<\/a>\u00a0files to your library and, in fact, provides many of the liner notes for iTunes Music Store purchased albums in PDF format. Unfortunately, they do not get synced to your iPhone or\u00a0iPod Touch<\/a>\u00a0even when set up to do so. Even stranger is the support that the iPhone has to view PDF files when attached to an email message. So, you have a device that supports the format, a program that also supports the format, but a disconnect between the two.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not viewing the 480×320 screen of the iPhone and iPod Touch to be the ideal presentation of “printed” media, but I see significant value in the possibility of having all sorts of “portable” documents with me in my pocket. Off the top of my head, I can think of several:<\/p>\n