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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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Well, it is actually among the top things I am looking for... I read quite a lot of technical pdf's, unfortunately on a computer screen because my poor PRS 505 just isn't fit for that, and the possibility to annotate the pdf would come really handy: think of equations that aren't clear at first read and need some development, the ability to make some handwritten calculations and link them to the equation would be awesome for future re-readings.
Actually, what I don't get is how marketeers haven't figured out that there are quite a bunch of people - academics, we all come with about the same requests - willing to pay for a device able to:
- read A4 PDF's comfortably (no crop or cumbersome rotation)
- handle big PDF's (500+ pages) smoothly
- take notes and link them to items in the PDF
- no extra useless junk, for the sake of autonomy
I just can't find a device that fits those requirements.
So don't be so categoric in deciding what the wrong direction is just because you have no use of it - others certainly do.
Back on topic. I read about the Asus Eee Note that seems quite promising. But although it has been released in Taiwan, I can't find any reliable info about release dates in other parts of the world: it was supposed to be available this February in Europe
