I'm glad to read both of your reviews.
I'm thinking of asking for the Galaxy Note as a late Christmas present when it comes to the States.
I read just today that the Note has a feature allowing a notepad to pop up while you are in another app or a browser so that you can take notes about the underlying page, tapping back and forth between the notepad and the app/browser. Does that make sense, and is it true??
Glad to know the reading experience is positive!