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Old 03-18-2023, 04:41 PM   #6
tomsem
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Sadly around here, that is not permitted. Most of the work PDFs are considered confidential documents with a rather annoying watermark to make it hard to miss and uploading them to a third party and especially to third party servers located in a foreign country is a reason for termination.

I won't even get into the issues with attempting to share annotations with a group when the annotations are not written to the PDF file.
If you need to work with PDF files for work, then your employer should purchase a device for you that meets your mutual requirements. Kindle Scribe is pretty obviously not going to meet these in its current state, it's not clear how interested Amazon is in this market, and if they are it is going to remain a secret until they have some solution.

As it is, PDF workflow is little more than a proof of concept: let's see where we are in a few months. Updates will be coming to flesh it out, along with the Word workflow.

Neither of these are my use cases at all, so the fact that it is not even close to finished doesn't diminish my enjoyment of what it is right now.

Not only is it a great reading device, but it is super nice for working crossword and sudoku puzzles. And yes, I'm starting to appreciate it as a Notebook device.

The most serious deficiencies with Notebooks and Pen features have been addressed, I'm sure other things are in the works (shapes, copy/paste etc). It's very pleasant to write on.

I'll be a lot more satisfied once the Print Replica support is fleshed out. I'm more interested in reading PDFs (converted to Print Replica) and Kindle Store content in this format than marking them up and Sharing etc., and the expected reading features are not there now (ability to select and highlight text, create notes, dictionary lookup, better navigation features and performance).

I think the initial market they are targeting is for education rather than business. That's a lower bar to reach, and by summer I think the features will be in place to support that scenario adequately.

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