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Originally Posted by Sonist
Heh, possibly because they didn't want to do it, but had their arm twisted (by the likes of the NYT and the universities.) So they probably waited until the last minute.
I would imagine, the PDF integration would become better fairly quickly, though firmware updates.
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Well, it would be great if that were to happen. I'd probably sign up for one on the spot.
However I have never seen Amazon add a big capability like this in a firmware update. Now I've only had Kindles for about a year, so maybe that is just not long enough for it to happen but, can anybody else remember anything major, like support of a new format, or a serious upgrade in capability, that came out as a firmware update?
Take folders. How often have we heard about a firmware update and speculated that this time Amazon might finally give the Kindle folder or tag capability? Never happened.
Take text-to-speech--it came out for the Kindle 2, but never for the Kindle.
Take pdf support so far--it will come out for the KDX, but have we heard anything from Amazon about it coming to K1 or K2?
So that's why I don't expect pdf-search/highlight/annotate to come out for KDX in a firmware update. As far as I can tell, firmware updates mean barely-visible bug fixes or other minor improvements like speeding up page turns a little.