At least Papers3 also searches the document with some levels of simple groupings on internal searches. This is useless when you have an article from 1966 that did not import well and therefore only has the title “A New Finding in Physics” that is supposed to be handled by the search on the same grouping list that I gave above. You CAN run complex REGEX searches in Bookends, but only on the meta-content to an article. Neither Bookends nor Papers3 are well-enough equipped to set up group searches on content that is already in your database. For example, I would be looking for a menu or preferences simply saying (Set) Search Engines, not looking for a menu File : Import Filter Manager (which, since “import” is also a verb, could be taken to mean “import the filter manager as a file”). I am still struggling with what I consider to be a complex or cumbersome or counter-intuitive layout of the menus and preferences and terminologies in Bookends. Papers3 allows you to merge duplicates (sometimes poorly though) while Bookends make you think “What the heck am I doing … I don’t want to REMOVE duplicates, I want to compare/combine/merge them”? And when you are going to “remove” them in Bookends, you have again to do the process in a tedious one-at-a-time, move to a hit list first approach.

Then … Then … Then … In Papers3, they are all run at once. In Bookends, you must run each resource one at a time. Papers3 has a far better approach to searching multiple resources on the internet.

Consider ((au: somename) OR (au: someothername)) AND ((all: some term) NOT (all: someterm)). Papers3 does far better than Bookends at allowing you to set up group searching methods on internet searches. I suspect (and have heard in passing somehow) that Papers/Readcube has lost/dropped their rights to access certain Web portal databases that gave them the data they needed to do these two functions. I can state categorically these findings so far:Ĭertain functions that Papers3 once had as best in class are now no longer reliable.

I am just doing a knock-down, drag-out evaluation between Papers3 and Bookends.

Readcube papers vs papers3