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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
A non-touchscreen device can never be a replacement for pen and paper (or books and paper). The need to annotate, highlight, underline, etc, is just too big.
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Also there is a large difference between paper and a fluro highlighter and an ebook device. However I can see the ebook devices getting ready for the academic market within a few iterations.
The thing that suprises me is that Amazon haven't already sat down and said "let's get the academic sector, it's worth billions". Because seriously, it's an obvious choice selling/renting ebook devices to students loaded with academic texts and adding advanced notation features to the Kindles (also things like being able to 'add-on' a touch pad interface for mathematical formulas, illustrations, quick notes).