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Originally Posted by Sirtel
iPad mini weighs about 290g, which is way too heavy for one-handed reading
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Not here, I assure you. (I must have particularly muscular hands, both left & right?)
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Originally Posted by Sirtel
You can make annotations with a pen on the Kobo Sage and export them, but again, I have no idea how that compares to other apps and programs.
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It wouldn't be enough for my needs... not even close.
As I mentioned a bit earlier somewhere, it's crucial for an e-reader to offer
multiple-color highlights. BookFusion has only very recently added this core annotating feature, apparently (iOS & web so far).
On a black-and-white e-ink reader, you've got to forget about
multiple-color highlights, of course, which pretty much excludes all e-ink readers from consideration for me. Yeah, even
colored e-ink readers, because e-ink is just painfully slow for
typing – and I not only use highlights, but frequently also
comment on them extensively.
So extensively, in fact, that sometimes I don't
type (or scribble) anything at all, but instead I
dictate my annotation on the relevant passage. I sometimes dictate for 5 to 10 minutes straight, if I feel the need to argue with some (typically
dead) writer!
An ideal e-reader would be one that would make it possible to record
voice annotations in addition to typed/scribbled ones, but that's perhaps asking too much. (Although a few e-readers do support voice annotations.) I'm OK with dictating my voice annotation into Dropbox, then linking it back to the book I'm reading via an URL – although that does slow me down considerably every time.
I respect
Kobo, by the way. A really solid brand, and I used to own a couple of Kobo e-ink readers. I liked them more than the Kindles for sure.
Ditto for
PocketBook. I in fact currently own a PocketBook e-ink reader, and it's really fine, better than a Kindle, but I just don't use it that much, given my annotation needs.
But a friend of mine has just emailed me in response to this thread, pointing out that PocketBook is likewise a potentially good cross-platform solution. There are apparently not only PocketBook apps for iOS and Android, but also a web app. So, a nice competitor for BookFusion. At the same time, the friend warns me that he's been encountering pretty severe issues with the display of
some e-books in PocketBook lately, so for those, he needs to revert to Google Play Books.