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Originally Posted by PF4Mobile
@johnnyb What version of Kindle do you use ? What screen size? you made me curious about annotating and reading PDFs on Kindle. I thought I ruled that out.
"sooner or later"a anything can can happen with any sort of device... this is why you have backup software, procedures and so on.
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I use a Kindle Keyboard with 6" screen and I either convert PDFs via email or display them directly. When done reading, I can export the highlights and notes for specific books with mentioned freeware and in case I need to use them, just search for them in the original file (with proper pagination)... This fits my workflow insofar as I prefer re-reading and organizing what is important for a specific topic anyway. Might not be for everyone... Advantage over Boox: the system is stable (and I always have the Kindle clippings as a backup and don't rely on obscure files that cannot be properly extracted, how do you restore the Boox database files properly?).
But I also have a tablet for that so this is just when I'm traveling and don't want "the heavy artillery" with me (for battery reasons for example, the Kindle last really long). Or when I cannot stand looking at a display. So I use the Kindle mostly for recreational reading and "recreational research" (that is, getting new ideas)...
(You could also reflash a Kindle DX(G) with firmware 3, probably less painful than relying on a Boox.)
(as to the other comment: I did own a Boox 60 way back, up until firmware 1.5 and my comments on the platform are based on the fact that the same problems "we" had back then still persist: the Wacom tourchscreen cannot be properly calibrated, is not properly integrated with dead zones and aberrations on the edges and margins, firmwares introduce bugs (that sometimes require resetting and losing progress while any update is badly needed), highlights cannot be extracted, the interface makes it a pain to work with the files (or at least unnecessarily complicated, nothing is available in the main screen), dictionaries don't work properly etc.
This has all been there for years and NOTHING has changed, why, nobody knows, I guess that new buyers are generally already satisfied when the device works somehow to some extent. The fact that Onyx has in three years not done anything to improve usability and was always just content with introducing new devices with the same old set of bugs, flaws, drawbacks and misconceptions is telling. They probably don't use the devices themselves, never have anything tested properly, or in a very odd way, to please the heads of the company, they have no concept, not to speak of a vision. For years, they have been relying solely on end-users to do the testing without actually listening to their needs. In their opinion, devices are complete, when a randomly chosen set of features somehow works.
As regeards Amazon, I'd prefer a business driven strategy of improvement over no strategy at all any day)...