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Originally Posted by punch_md
I got mine yesterday (thanks booxtor!), and my first impressions are good, compared to the M92:
- speed seems pretty good, and for writing after the booxtor update above, the lag is minimal (I had to download the update from ereader.de, the ota trick didn't work for me either)
- the major improvement on M92 with M96 is the access to all the apps in the Google Play store... so now I have an embarassement of riches.
My two main uses of the M92 (and the Irex before that) are
1) note taking
2) pdf annotation (correction of scientific papers)
So now for these I'm looking at a couple of apps, and would appreciate any advice/suggestions.
1) For note-taking:
- Lecturenotes seems to be my best option for the moment, saving in an open format (png), and with the possibility to export to PDF. The saving of the file with a timestamp in the format I like (ISO date) is a big plus.
- Write from Stylus labs seems to have more functionality, but looks really adapted for a colour screen and active pen. Nicely saves in SVG format and can export to PDF. The menus are in colour, so become almost (or actually) unreadable. But maybe the developer (who is active) could look at adapting it for b/w stylus pads?
- Papyrus is professional, but has some strange way of saving the data in a database, so I'm afraid to be locked out of my notes if they go down the drain or cause vendor lock-in.
2) PDF annotation (haven't started to look at this yet, in detail)
- Booxtor's Neoreader could be okay once the promised possibility to merge the scribbles materializes (or maybe I can do this with Imagemagik on Linux already somehow, as a workaround?)
- ezPDF seems to come strongly recommended...
Suggestions are welcome, maybe there could be something on the mobileread wiki with a comparison table?
As an early adopter, I don't have a problem with the device's software not being perfect yet, but hope it will advance quickly!
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Since scribbling best works on the Neo reader I guess that's where you'll be wanting to take your notes. Using a Pdf with blank pages or when the feature of adding blank pages becomes available by simply adding pages to existing PDFs.
The scribbling in other apps (ezPDF reader, or Lecturenotes) has always been inferior to the one in the Neo reader (in my experience). If all the promised feature are introduced into the reader this will become the perfect device for note-taking and PDF annotation (4 times cheaper than the Digital paper device by Sony)
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