[Veltliner]

Is it possible to place bookmarks in documents that you read using Adobe Reader?

So you could, for example, place that bookmark and a short description to the right or to the left of the text for quick access.

[Veltliner]

Looks like there is no such functionality.

Adobe Reader is typical bloatware. It's full of menus and tools nobody needs.

What I wanted to do for reading all those manuals (usually in pdf, and sometimes several hundred pages long):

1. Create a bookmark to an important chapter, name bookmark, and put it in the gray area left of the text.

2. Whenever I need to look up something in the manual, I just click on one of those bookmarks.

Of course, that's not going to work.

What you need to do in Adobe Reader:

1. navigate to the table of contents.

2. Find (again) what you need.

3. Go where you need to go.

Why create practical software with few, but necessary functions, if you can deliver more menus and tools than you can find on an instrument panel of a Boeing 747, but which nobody needs?

[Sam_Murai]

So right. It's now 2009, 3 years after that post and we're on to Adobe Reader 9, more bloated with tons of tools and functions that are mostly not used (nor necessary, especially for the average reader).

It's like a lot of Microsoft Software that you can't live with and can't live without. Unfortunately, it's become the de facto standard. Whilst we appreciate that it's free, I can't for the life of me understand why the rocket scientists who write these programs can't put a simple feature into the reader such as bookmarking the page you're up to so that you can come back to it later. You know, like what people do with books every day which they can't finish reading in one sitting.

Or perhaps the software geniuses who come up with the code are autistic savants who don't understand that the average person doesn't necessarily finish reading a whole eBook in one sitting?

Btw, I'm not a Mac user, but we have the same grumbles about Adobe Reader.