[hmr]

I've read through the complete thread (phew) and just registered (hi all!). I've had the Max 2 for three days now and am so glad to have found a place where people talk about their use and exchange ideas. I probably should state that I don't have any experience with Android, and most of the posts mentioning "adp shell am ..." went right over my head.

There are two things where I wonder if anyone else has the same issue and what to do about it:

1. Changes in the "Storage" app (like the automatically created mydocument-annotation.txt I want to export) don't show up in my computer's Android File Transfer app unless I restart the Max 2. For what it's worth, changes made using the computer's File Transfer App show up on the Max 2 immediately. USB for file transfer (MTP) is selected via the USB menu icon. Neither restarting the File Transfer app on the PC nor reconnecting USB helps, only restarting the Max 2. Does anyone else experience this issue?

2. When trying to solve above problem, I switched USB to "charge only", which made the USB icon disappear from the status bar, leaving me without any way to reactivate MTP. After searching all the menus and the manual for one hour, I installed Jan 5th's update, after which the icon reappeared. Now I don't dare to touch it again, because I don't know whether it would reappear after a reboot, or only after an update, or whether the update fixed this issue. Can anyone confirm what is the case?

I must say that I'm pretty happy with my Max 2 so far. I bought it for reading and annotating/taking notes on research papers as my second-best option after I found out that the Sony DSP-S1 was not available anymore (can't even get it used in Europe). The background is darker than I had anticipated, and glare happens more often than I hoped, but I agree with what has been said about this here, it's probably at good as you can expect. By the way, I'm a fan of the A2 refresh mode, everything is just so much quicker. Pity that it seems to auto-reset.

I've tried a Kindle Paperwhite before and was really impressed by the build and image quality, so that's why I might be a little spoiled. But that one is tiny. I guess you wouldn't be able to build a Letter-sized one with that technology for under $2000.

I'm still trying to find the optimal solution for exporting annotations (text-only: mostly highlights, some textual notes). It surprises me that every tool does that but seems to do things just a little weirdly so that it's not very useful any more: The built-in txt export file orders annotations chronologically (instead of the order in the document); other export solutions (Skim on my Mac, Sumnotes on the Web) miss some of the highlighted text in Max 2's exported PDFs; --- only Goodreader for iOS performs perfectly. Back in my iPad days that was the first annotation tool I used, and it still exports annotations in a very useful fashion. Spoiled by experience again, I guess, but I don't want to include an iPhone in the document workflow if I don't have to.

Ideally, every document I annotated, I want to export as a folder (or Evernote note) on my computer that contains the textual annotations as an excerpt as well as the annotated PDF file. The folder which the Max 2 creates when annotating notes is *almost* perfect (even containing scribbles!), save for the out-of-order-txt-annotations (which to use as excerpts I want to use the Max 2 for). Has anyone trying the same thing found a solution/workflow that works for them?

Sorry for the long post full of questions -- I can make one contribution however: If you need a clip for the stylus like that shown in this thread, they are common on those mechanical pencils that can be re-filled. I stole one from one of those, bent it a little to make it fit more snugly, and it works great. I only feel I need to be extra careful not to get too close to the screen with the metal clip.