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Originally Posted by dcubed2
Back to high school. It seems like the high school texts are going to be limited. If, however, you need to read entire classic books, the eDGe may be a good fit. If you are reading The Illiad, for example, you can have one version on the eInk side and have another version, a dictionary, a summary, a video, etc on the lcd side to help with various parts and nuances of the book.
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Well, this can be done with a netbook and a Kindle together costing less than the Edge. Or even cheaper, a netbook and paperback...this is a real stretch as a justification for shelling out $500, especially since the Edge LCD side is significantly weaker than a netbook.
One thing that might change this would be a feature allowing you to open multiple documents on the e-reader side so that they're simultaneously visible (and markable!), each taking up part of the e-ink display. I've had to resort to opening up one PDF on the LCD side and one on the eink side several times, each time giving me the netbook-duct-taped-to-an-ereader feeling, which especially irks me because I already had a laptop and a Kindle before I got the Edge.
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The eDGe is also really good for marking up the text, you can add notes, highlight, add links, etc as you are reading. For class note-taking, I think it depends on your note-taking style. *I* tended to underestimate the amount of space needed and got a 0.3 mm pencil to help me write ever smaller . So, the eDGe would not have been a good fit for me in taking notes. Perhaps it would be fine for you, I don't know.
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On this I agree. Annotating text is something that puts the Edge above all its competitors in that price range, for those who have use for that feature.