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Originally Posted by Panoleon
Nope..... PB 903 is NOT able to create notes on PDF or any other document. It is the greatest disappointment from last year. AND the worst part is: they have a history of bad upgrade firmware. WE all wait for the right upgrade.
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Thanks for the reply, I also reached the same conclusions. Additionally, I think PocketBook is generally a small time company because of the misleading way they presented 903 before its launch, the long delay they inserted before releasing the SDK (I don't know if they even released it by now) and generally the way they present themselves and their products. Essentially, my impression is that PocketBook tries to appear as being way more than what they are actually capable to be.
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Originally Posted by Panoleon
And After all. I think I-pad/ tablets is no substitute for e-ink, because: after a day behind a computer screen, the e-reader is very nice to look and read at. The tablets are no good for the eye.
Besides that.... The battery life is horrible good. I had my PB for 3 weeks not loaded and still good battery. A tablet is drinking energy like an alcoholic needs his drink. An e-reader is totaly different.
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I largely agree with that but I still think that reading can be done on both tablets and eink ereaders and there are important scenarios where one type of device is better than the other; eink doesn't always win (eg: reading full color glossy magazines, quickly browsing through a PDF or taking annotations is what tablets are generally much better for than ereaders). Thus, ereaders cannot afford to claim that the good parts of the eink technology justifies about any shortcomings it may have in comparison to a tablet. A balance must exist between price and feature set and the 903 seemed to me to miss the balance point by a lot.
I think the Kindle DX is superior from an eink technology point of view (Pearl screen), its system software is more stable than 903's and generally its hardware is much better aligned with its purpose. The touch screen in the 903 is pointless without capability for annotations while the KDX has a useful physical keyboard.
The most pleasant surprise I had with the KDX is that it is capable to display annotations in PDF files. You can't edit them but you can see them. So if I annotate a PDF on my workstation with underlines, highlights, added text, etc, I can see those annotations on KDX. It was a wonderful surprise and now I read my ebooks and record my annotations using my Android phone and a software that records voice in a structured way. In this way I can add/modify my annotations when I'm on my PC and still see them on my ereader. If I would really want to capture annotations on my KDX I would have to convert the papers I read from PDF into something else, and then the KDX can also add/edit annotations. But I don't want to go through the hassle of converting the PDFs and, for now, I can live with the limitations of the KDX.