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Originally Posted by kshanti4la
Hello friends:
Thank you so much for these interesting comments. Pls, can anyone add a bit more commentary on a comparison of the Kindle DX and a BeBook/Hanlin v 3?
I'm still so undecided on which e-reader will work best for my needs, which are the ability to read PDFs and, one hopes, the ability to highlight or make comments on the text. I'm a PhD student (yeah, this is what the failing economy does to some people) and am simply swimming in PDF material. The Hanlin looks interesting but it's size is a bit small, yes? And I live outside of the US, so Kindle support would be iffy at best, don't you think?
Any comments on the software, Stanza, which is reported to reconfigure and load PDF books to Kindle 2s without the assistance of the Amazon middleman?
Again, thank you for such a helpful forum.
Linda
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It doesn't appear that you can make comments or highlights on PDF materials on the DX. However, materials in PDF that I have highlighted on my computer do appear with highlighting and typed comments (not hidden comments) intact.
So, while you might have to do the initial read through and highlighting on the computer, the DX would be an ideal reader to take somewhere with you to study the things you have already highlighted.
I'm going to be giving this thing a few torture tests to see exactly what it will and will not do, but I see it as working extremely well for my particular needs. However, I am an attorney and not a student, and you may need to take additional notes on the fly. For me, that's what my netbook is for. I have simply found that trying to read on a backlit screen for long periods kills my elderly eyes.