I have sent the following email to their sales manager and to someone named Jeff Newcombe:
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I really like your device, but I'm afraid that as an academic I have no use for a document reader without the capability to make *TEXTUAL ANNOTATIONS*. Moreover, the hypertexting in ePub documents doesn't work so I can't click on endnotes, etc.. Much as I like the device, I simply can't use it. There are lots of other improvements that could be made, not least of which is to do some programming that runs a bit faster, but I can live without all of that. I can't live with a device that can't insert text annotations (drawings doesn't cut it) or that doesn't have functional hypertext in multiple eReader formats.
That's *essential* if you're targeting academia. Without it, the device has zero value.
I'd like an RMA number so I can return the device for a refund. Thanks.
-Scott Talkington, PhD
Research Fellow
School of Public Policy
George Mason University
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I guess I'm going to have to get an iPad or something. Not ideal, but there don't seem to be any other options beyond paying through the nose for a used Kindle DX.