Skim cream of the crop
I just launched Skim, the freeware pdf reader and was greeted with the install update screen. Apparently it is now up to 0.5. If you haven’t tried Skim and you do read pdfs, give it a try. It seems odd to me that Skim even exists. Adobe Reader is a perfectly good pdf reader and it is also free. But after you try Skim, if you have both Reader and Skim installed, you will probably finding yourself launching Skim to read. First off it is extremely fast and smooth running. Take a little time to look at the key command shortcuts. There is a little toolbar at the top, but if you use command 1 through 5 you can grab the tool you need. For example command-1 is the text tool and command-2 is the scroll tool. After you select the scroll tool, shift-down arrow makes the page scroll down. Just a down arrow takes you to the next section in the document as bookmarked. option right arrow takes you to the next page.
Skim also has the ability to add pdf notes to the page and save the document with them. You can add notes, lines, markup and circles. You can bookmark where you are on a book or document. Looks like one of the additions in version 0.5 is the ability to show or hide notes. If you read pdfs like I do, you may want to take a look at Skim. It truly is one of the cream of the crop applications that are Mac only.