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Just wanted to give my thoughts on this device. I bought the US version a little over a month ago and have been using it daily since.
I use it to read PDFs of medical textbooks mostly. Some books I've used it to view are surgical textbooks, medical textbooks, board review books, medical journals, and question books. PDF's for the most part fit perfectly. Even for the textbooks that are a bit too large and are shrunk to fit, I still find better than my laptop (macbook air 11"). I don't own a high resolution LCD based tablet so it would be difficult to compare but I have a dell venue pro 8 and it's a mediocre reading experience at best.
As for notetaking... it's "okay". You need to write without worrying about how it comes out. Use muscle memory instead of watching the lines. There is such a thing as writing too fast with a device like this and not all the characters come out perfect. Cursive always looked better to me than print. Annotating documents and jotting down small notes is good but taking notes from a blank sheet is disappointing because small handwriting doesnt come out very good. You can zoom in and then write and then zoom out which helps but isnt ideal. The actual writing experience is pretty good. Plastic feels much more natural than writing on glass. It has just enough give to feel like a pad of paper but isnt scratchy. I'd say it feels like a pencil on a smooth cutting board.
Summary: Was it worth the $1000? For me it is because I can take a 2000 page textbook and read it on the go. Table of contents works well, page flipping works well, workspaces make it easy to read one book and flip to another for comparison. For example, I look at a topic from a surgical text, switch to a medical text, then to a pathology text. Jotting down notes, underlining, highlighting works well. There is definitely some lag but nothing that slows me down when I have work to do. Will I pull this out at a meeting to take notes? No, definitely not. It's much faster to grab a piece of paper and start scribbling.
Any questions, feel free to ask. I am a 3rd year medical student so my use is purely academic, although I may consider reading comics on it at a future date.
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