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Originally Posted by setasai
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.
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Thank you for this part in particular, it was very helpful for me! So, I guess I'll wait at least for either of the PocketBook or the Netronix to come out and hope that I can find someone who can compare those. One thing that strikes me as notably convenient/well-designed on the Sony is the intuitive multi-tasking/workspace feature which allows you to switch beetween documents and annotations fluently and, on top of that, the ability to embed little "canvases" for notes into a document. Very clever and, even before the Sony came out, I'd always wished for something like that.
So, I'll guess a few more months of wait wont hurt in any case
As for the "feel" of the pen on plastic: If the tip is removable like in Wacom-like digitizers, you can replace it with another material. My Wacom Digitzer came with various tips, all of which have a very different feeling (like a rubber one, a plastic one, an elastic one, etc.)