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Originally Posted by anamardoll
Annotation export,
advanced page syncing between other Nook devices,
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The Sony does NOT do 'Annotation export', because the whole concept of the word 'annotation' refers to creating an 'annotated' document in which we can see our highlightlng, markups, and annotation text, in the context of the fully marked up document.
Here's what the Sony does do -
When you draw a circle around a paragraph and make a note like 'too wordy' the Sony converts your hand drawn circle into a stupid little geeky linux graphic figure and dilgently hides in it's stupid little geeky linux innards, and converts your text note into an equally geeky text file and hides that away as well.
The good news is - when you open the document on the reader, with luck, it will usually find all that crap and overlay it onto the original document, so you can see your 'annotations'.
The bad news is - when you try to export your so-called 'annotations' from the reader library, you lose the graphics entirely, as well as all the original document text that was associated with them, and get only the cryptic (and now ALMOST USELESS) out of context text note 'too wordy'.
What was 'too wordy'?
Oh, and don't try to export more than a hundred characters per note (gee, and you thought Twitter's stupid 140 charaacter limit was bad). Oh, and don't do too many highlights or notes, unless you want your reader to really slooooooooooow down.
Yah, that's really useful. I can see why you would call it PERFECT. As long that is, as your definition of 'perfect' includes wasting hours of your time marking up a document, and ending up with something that is NEARLY USELESS.
Now let's compare that to marking up a PDF document loaded into RepliGo on a Nook Color shall we?
RepliGo let's you add margin notes, and hand drawn annotations - AND THEN LET'S YOU SAVE THEM DIRECTLY INTO THE PDF.
This PDF can then be emailed to ANYONE who is free to open it with any PDF application that supports notes and see your annotations (with Acrobat reader for example).
Sure, there are a few bugs in some of the Android apps, RepliGo included, but that's because when you do about 50 times as much, you are bound to have a few more bugs, but unlike the Sony, most Android apps get regular bug fixes and updates.
I fully expect my Sony to get another update to improve the PDF handling, right around the time the Devil starts shopping for ice skates.
The key difference that I am getting at is simply this -
Not only has B&N been more responsive than Sony in doing updates to fix bugs, and to add features requested by users, but because the new Nooks, like the Nook Color and Nook Touch, are Android based, you aren't limited to waiting for B&N to fix something, because these devices can run Android Apps, so you can often find an alternative that will give you the features that you want.