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Old 07-16-2010, 01:41 PM   #1
NautilusIII
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Normal books and technical papers (PDFs with annotation support)

Hi!

I am searching for an ebook reader satisfying two use cases:

1. Reading normal books
This is the more simple use case I think; just want to be able to have access to a lot of current bestsellers, download them and read them ... easy...

2. Academic/technical papers
Most of these papers are in PDF format, often DIN A4, text often layouted double-column etc.
It must be possible to read this papers comfortably, even if they contain formulas or images.
A very important aspect is that it must be possible to highlight and annotate text fragments, to have easy access to such previously made annotations and to export them to a PC to print them e.g. It should be possible to make handwritten notices (via a stylus) and "printed" annotations via a virtual keyboard.

As indicated, It should be possible to do such annotations with a stylus; I am not the fan of mini-keyboards, I think a virtual keyboard is sufficient.

Searching for text should be supported to.

In General:
The device should be usable outside and visualize ebooks nicely (I like eInk).
Finger touchpad is not soo important, but if the visualization does not suffer it is a plus.
Books should be manageable in folders or so.
Memory must be extensible (SD e.g.).
Battery life time must be really long.

Things like text2speech are less important.

I am generally thinking of a 6" device.

I am interested in the Onyx Boox 60, the BeBook Neo, and the Pocketbook 302 (or its successor). I am not sure whether any Sony device (the 600) does what I am looking for?!?

Any recommendations?

I am living in Germany if that matters :-)

Thanks!

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