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Hello,
I am sorry for writing English, I am able to read your German posts, but I would hardly express myslef in German.
I have just another comment to the note-taking function. May be the more datailed comment helps to develop things properly. In fact, I do not see, what can be a trouble with programming the proper note-taking function. It's in fact nothing more than a text editor around the existing marking function.
So what my disappointment about this marking function instead of note-taking function is about?
I have bought the PB903 specially because of its note-taking function. I am greatly surprised it is so rare function in e-book readers, but as I understood from numerous reviews, common folk does not need it. But PB903 is presented as a professional device.
I do not know, who is meant by professional, but in relation to reading I would expect it to be a journalist or a scholar. For both of these, the fundamental property of a paper book is its margin. There one can comfortably write numerous comments (in my case different types of comments on each - right and left - margin) with a pencil.
So in case of a professional e-book reader one would expect that it can facilitate such a function, i.e. provide the same capabilities as a paper book or article - the possibility of commenting selected passages of the text. But since the device is electronic, one can expect it to provide this functionality with advantages of an electronic device. By that I mean that one could expect such a text-marking function, which is now in the device, and which copies the selected text to a separate file, with a further possibility to write (with the help of inbuilt keyboard) his own comments to these marked passages of the text in this separate file. One more thing one would expect: to be able to locate and rename such text files and to save them to one's computer to be able to work with them further. One would expect this, because it is precisely what is called simply "reading", or interacting with a text. If I cannot do this, I simply cannot read with the help of the device anything but daily news.
From some reviews, including the review on note-taking in PB360, I expected that this somewhat more sophisticated editor of .txt files will be present and fully working in the PB903. I don't really understand why it is not. I really do not understand what technically is so difficult about combining text-marking (or precisely text-copying) function with text-editing function. And I am also seriously thinking about sending the device back to a seller. Because not having this note-taking function it does not provide - for a professional - real reading function. Which turns it to a quite expensive toy - nice but useless.
Milan
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