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Originally Posted by Läsare
Any better suggestions for an e reader / note taker?
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For real ebooks, such as mobi, azw3, kfx or epub the best note annotation is any Kobo 6" to 8". Best support for copying the notes into a text editor via Calibre (or even direct USB copy if the extra Export menu item on Kobo is enabled. Only the touch screen keyboard, or on Elipsa & Sage a BT keyboard will work for longer notes, but tends to disconnect between notes.
For free hand scribbling on PDFs any eink with a digitiser works, but only on unprotected PDFs. You can't easily extract the notes, just copy entire PDF.
The Kobo Elipsa and Sage also have separate notebooks with handwriting recognition. Like the reMarkable it's not integrated to the books or PDFs. But the reMarkable's notebooks are just sketchpads, no builtin handwriting conversion. Kobo is using the Nebo app also on iOS and Android (if the tablet has a digitiser).
Turns out that the 8″ Sage is handier for notebooks than the 10.3″ Elipsa due to size. The reMarkable is really just a nice PDF reader with rubbish PC interfacing (no MTP or Mass Storage, only networking!) that lets you scribble on the PDFs.
It's not clear how useful the Kindle Scribe will be to annotate ebooks. For PDF it's better than all the other 10 inch eink right now because of 300 dpi vs 227 dpi (Boox, reMarkable, Elipsa, Sony, Hauwei etc). It will be better for annotation (scribbling) on unprotected PDFs than the reMarkable simply because of easier copy to/from PC. All 10 inch approx eink are better than a reMarkable.
The Sony was poor walled garden and basically PDF virtual paper needing Sony App. The reMarkable seems like a poor copy of it.
I'd imagine the ebook (mobi, azw3, kfx and converted epub) aspect of the Scribe will be very similar to the Oasis3 / PW5 etc except bigger and heavier. I used Kindle for ebooks & annotation of them till I got a Kobo. The Kindles only used to test new ebook styles now. Too restrictive on Annotations, Collections, Series and Firmware versions.
I'd assume the PDF & "writing on them" with stylus is better than reMarkable and at least as good as the Kobo Sage and Elipsa.
There is no clarity on what the Scribe will be like as standalone notebook, except I can say it's too heavy. I can easily write a chapter of a novel, or a journal in on the 8″ Sage, and have it as a word docx with sketches and visio style shapes and maths, or plain text file. The Elipsa is too heavy for long use except on a desk stand. The reMarkable can't do it at all, it's just freehand sketching. Any handwriting to text is after the fact export to the Internet which is inferior to Nebo.