The Genealogy Gems podcast is one of my favorites and I am a Premium member as well. There are several perks of being a premium member, one of them being the show notes are provided to you in a PDF document. Not that big of a deal to you? It may be when you start listening and viewing the show notes from an iPad.
The Premium podcasts are available online for a limited time, because of this I like to download the show notes, so that I have the content and links to review as I have time. By doing so, I have ended up creating my own reference library in iBooks that I can refer to again and again. It's very simple to do and I've provided you with step-by-step screen shots (from my iPad, using the Safari browser and Skitch to annotate the images)
Select the podcast you are interested in.
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Click the PDF document link to open it.
Choose to open in iBooks
Select the collection you wish to save the PDF in.
You can create custom collections as I have done.
My Genealogy Gems reference shelf.
As I go through the show notes I delete them to save space on my iPad, unless I find the episode contains too many "gems" and I keep those. I've been trying to force myself to use my iPad more and this is one way that I am. Once you have the PDF in iBooks you can open and read the PDF offline, however, you will need internet access for the links to work.
I received permission from Lisa Louise Cooke to share these Premium member screenshots.
Great post, Jenna! I use an iPad too but haven't done this yet. I'll have to give it a try.
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