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Old 12-19-2010, 02:27 PM   #57
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Originally Posted by Latinandgreek View Post
How are you enjoying it so far? New Pearl e-ink display aside, are you enjoying it more than your Sony 300? I'm curious, as I've never seen a Kindle in person, and I've been thinking about perhaps getting the DX. I'm still undecided, though.
Forgive me for jumping in here, but with free access to Wikipedia and the Web (don't try YouTube!), combined with the ease of taking notes and copying text, I think you'd appreciate a Kindle. A major drawback, and perhaps in your case perhaps a deal-breaker, is that the plain text file into which Kindle dumps all your notes and clippings doesn't render Greek symbols (although they show up fine in Kindle books). You can read books in Greek on your Kindle, but forget copying passages in Greek to your PC.

I'm sure you could copy text written in Greek letters to a word-processing app such as Pages on an iPad (though I've never tried it for a book with Greek symbols), but it's a much more expensive device. I have no idea if you can copy and export Greek texts on a NookColor, or even if you can export text period.
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