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Originally Posted by ManDay
That said, you should be careful with a definition of "bloat" from your somewhat limited perspective. You have not used the device like scientists do. You don't know what it's like to heavily annotate a document with sometimes three, four "sticky notes" per page; what it's like to need to jump back and forth between formulae, theorems, and explanations, several times per page across a 400 pages book. You don't know the modus operandi of someone who carries this light device always, as a portable desktop, and works on it in a shared environment without having to rely on other means such as a computer.
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With the very greatest respect, ManDay, the usage you describe is hardly unique to scientists - it's common to any academic research. When I'm working on translations of my Egyptology texts on my iPad, that's precisely the way that I work: adding annotations (often several per line, never mind per page), and constantly flipping backwards and forwards between the original text and the copious reference material I'm using to translate it - hieroglyphic sign lists, dictionaries, grammar references, commentaries, etc. It's what differentiates research usage from simply "reading a book", as I might do on my eInk Kindle.