# Suggestions for an iPad app to open documents?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestions-for-an-ipad-app-to-open-documents/650156
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [February 13, 2013, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestions-for-an-ipad-app-to-open-documents/650156 "2013-02-13T05:06:41Z")
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### Author: ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2013, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestions-for-an-ipad-app-to-open-documents/650156/1 "2013-02-13T05:06:41Z")

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Mrs Piper has an iPad and was in court using it today, and ran into a problem. The app she was using to open pdf docs was something called “evernote” but she found that it was really slow.

Anyone have any suggestions for other apps that might work more quickly?

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### Author: ![Dano83860](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a4c791/32.png) [@Dano83860](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dano83860)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2013, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestions-for-an-ipad-app-to-open-documents/650156/2 "2013-02-13T05:32:28Z")

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When I get a PDF down loaded that I may want to look at again I open it in iBooks.

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### Author: ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2013, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestions-for-an-ipad-app-to-open-documents/650156/3 "2013-02-13T12:06:13Z")

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> [@Northern\_Piper](#):
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> Anyone have any suggestions for other apps that might work more quickly?

It depends upon what I need to do. If just reading it, I’ll often use the Kindle app or iBooks. If I want to make notes/highlight things, I go with iAnnotate or Word2HD. Speed, though, is always dependent on my internet connection unless I’ve saved it to my device.

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### Author: ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2013, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestions-for-an-ipad-app-to-open-documents/650156/4 "2013-02-13T12:30:10Z")

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Moved from General Questions to IMHO.

**samclemm** , moderator