Thank you - those are all very helpful points. The N96 is available in a version with a capacitive touchscreen, which should make a mouse less necessary. But you are completely right that the issue will be processing power.
What gave me the idea was a brief encounter a couple of months ago with an Onyx Boox E43 (a smartphone with an e-Ink screen). That device
came with WPS Office pre-installed. It was an old version as the phone ran Gingerbread, but that got me wondering whether I'd be able to run a more modern version of WPS Office on the newer hardware of the N96. I hadn't thought about the M96 - which, as you point out, is very similar to the N96. Searching for that brought up this post about running office software on the M96:
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Originally Posted by fozzedout
Okay, on my lunch break I've checked these:
JotterPad (Writer)
Text editor, works in the same way as Writer for formatting, but also supports standard shortcuts, such as Ctrl+B for bold, but it is still, at the end of the day, just a text file.
Okay in update speed, and can just about keep up, but the screen gets pretty ugly if you are typing fast.
WPS Office Word Processor
Nice clean, fully fledged word processor, however does not seem to support keyboard shortcuts for formatting. All formatting has to be done through the pen, selecting the text and then selecting format style, which is hideously slow to perform.
Fast update speed, and keeps up with fast typing.
Google Docs Word Processor
Simple word processor, with all basic functionality there and in one place to use. Supports keyboard formatting shortcuts.
Sloooow update speed. It really lags behind with updating the screen when typing fast. Possibly because it's saving the document online between each keypress?
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So it seems like it may definitely be something worth investigating further. Thanks again for the help.