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Originally Posted by mdmorrissey
Why in the world would anyone insist on being able to take notes on a reading device? This is the wrong direction, and plays directly into the hands of the marketeers who are only interested in producing fancier and fancier devices that promise everything and deliver -- by definition almost -- insufficiently, so that the prices are maintained or increased with every new "improvement." NO! For crissakes all you need is paper and pencil to take notes! You don't need to take notes and underline, etc. on a reading device anymore than you need to underline or write in the margins of paper books (and shame on you if you do that -- or why not engage for paper books with amazingly expandable margins and so on...). Here is what I want and I think all of us would be perfectly satisfied with if we get off the "upgrade" carousel:
1. A CHEAP e-ink reader that will display all sorts of texts as well as paper. NOT in color! (How books for adults are in color?)
2. Paper and pencil.
Go ahead and scream. Then we will know where you are coming from!
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While I would buy a cheap, large e-ink reader for reading PDFs, and colour really isn't all that important to me, I do a lot of translation work, and being able to write my notes/possible translations directly on the reader would be a HUGE bonus. While for some people note-taking isn't an issue, for others it is. I don't consider it a must-have feature for me on an e-ink reader (yet), mostly because e-ink doesn't seem to be quick enough yet for me to find extensive hand-written notes very comfortable to use, and the keyboard note-taking option doesn't cut it for me as I can't produce diacritics, foreign alphabets, etc. with it (as far as I know). Note-taking, however, is a dealbreaker for a lot of people, and that's very understandable. Underlining and multiple bookmarking is very important, both in academic and non-academic work for many people. Different strokes for different folks.