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Old 11-27-2008, 09:48 AM   #1
tucidide19
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Hello, I'd like to have some information I don't seem to find anywhere else.

As a Comparative Literature scholar, I have pretty high expectations from an electronic reading device. In the first place, I've heard that this DR (unlike the Iliad) is capable of searching a string of text in a given file. Is that true? Is the lookup tool capable of handling large files (2+ MBs)?
My second question concerns the annotations. Is it possible to enter machine-readable notes (e.g. via an on-screen keyboard, as I had in my old Pocket PC)? That would be a boon, as I often find myself labelling specific passages with catchwords, so that I may easily return to them later.
Finally, is there any way to multi-task on these devices? For instance, "reading" different books at a time, keeping a dictionary open in background, etc.. Nothing too demanding for the processor, but the software often makes these transitions quite complicated.
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