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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
Sure you can. It is even better than embedded in the PDF itself as it is a text file with just your annotations.
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Really? Text? There is no Handwriting recognition. Also how do you select a highlight and add a keyboard text note on an image based (i.e. Scan with no OCR layer) PDF.
How to you add a note on a directly copied PDF with a pen, like an arrow or circle an object, or sketch/handwriting annotating a manual's diagram or textbook's equation? Those need to be added to the PDF.
I've a PW3, recently had an Oasis, have a KK3 and a DXG. I can highlight & annotate (with real text) on a mobi or azw3, but not any of my PDFs. I'd understood you have to send a PDF to Amazon and download a Print Replica KFX to add pen (handwritten or scribbles) annotation, and then send to Amazon again to get an email back into the PC. I have no Kindle App on the PC. There are multiple issues with that PDF work flow.
I have approximately three sorts of PDF:
1) Exact files to be uploaded for POD. They need viewed and pen annotation, no computer readable text needed. But the annotated PDF needs to be transferred back to PC. The actual content is first proofed & annotated till polished as an ebook (used to be azw3, but now is epub), so computer readable text is never needed.
2) Operation Manuals, service manuals, data sheets. They need viewed and sometimes pen annotation, no computer readable text needed. But the annotated PDF needs to be transferred back to PC.
3) Scans of old books to read because there is no paper or ebook version available. They are only read.
Actual ebooks are only ever highlighted/annotated (if at all) with real text. I use the touch keyboard as it's never much text per note. Those are copied back to PC and pasted into a multi-tab plain text editor. The Kobo is far better than the Kindle for ebook management and annotations via Calibre. I used the PW3 for a while.
Note that handwriting is not text. Only content that can paste / copy / insert into a plain text editor is text.
I'd never pre-order anything. I waited to see people's real experience of the Scribe. Despite the issues with my Kindles and the broken nature of collections and especially series on it, I was almost sure I'd buy a Scribe. Tomsem's posts on it have been the most off-putting.
I think now I'll wait for something better. I have the Elipsa and it convinced me to buy a Sage (I already had a Libra and 7.8″ Likebook Mars Android eInk), because I thought why would I want an 8″ ereader as well? The Elipsa Advanced notebook seemed great for writing snippets, but it was too big and heavy as a notebook (I've used A5 notebooks for years rather than A4) and too big and heavy to read epubs. The Sage, after a FW update or two has been perfect for writing, better for epub reading & annotation than the Libra or Oasis (epubs to azw3) and even manages most of the scanned book PDFs and many PDF manuals.
I'd maybe still get a Kindle Scribe if I could USB transfer a PDF of a POD, scribble on it and copy back the annotated PDF via USB (with markup on it). But it's news to me that it's possible.
However maybe next year there will be a bigger than 10.3″ at 1/2 the price of the about €900 13″ approx Boox (which is also slightly too low a resolution, the same dpi as the 227 dpi Elipsa would do though 300 dpi would be nicer).