I found a great script that removes the margins from PDF books. It is for linux, and requires a few different tools to make it work. The script is not mine, but was found at the following link. I'm preserving it here for later use. And posterity, or whatever.
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/42236/pdfcrop-generates-larger-file
Taking notes is an important part of school life, especially in college and university where the content is often presented at a faster pace than in earlier levels. In the upper levels, computers are often used by students in the classroom, so I'm going to try out a few different options available to me on Ubuntu Linux 13.04. Users of other releases or distributions (such as Fedora, openSuse, Arch) will likely have to modify the install instructions based on their setup.