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Originally Posted by montsnmags

I'd like a stylus though, and the keyboard dock was a significant clincher for me.

I've been using a PogoSketch stylus on my iPod Touch and I'm very happy with it. Only US$10.

Originally Posted by pilotbob

I do know that pen based annotation and note taking is an important feature to me for a large format reading device... which as also something that this device doesn't' offer.

Yes, it does. WritePad + PogoSketch = HWR, or you can use FastFinga and Evernote.

Originally Posted by dioib

Does anybody know if using stylus on capacitive screens give you the same level of precision one gets on resistive ones?

I've been using the PogoSketch stylus on my iPod Touch for about a month now. I'd say it's not as good as a calibrated Wacom tablet, but about as good as the resistive screens I've used. It's significantly better than my experience with the iLiad, which had a Wacom tablet but terrible calibration (even after the community developers wrote a calibration program).

It takes a bit of getting used to, because the tip of the stylus is bigger than what we're used to with Palm devices, etc. (and it's squishy), but it actually works quite well. On a par with the Newton, I'd say (and whatever other criticisms people had of that product, the stylus wasn't one of the problems.)

You can make a capacitive stylus with aluminum foil wrapped around a pencil, if you want to try it. Use the eraser end. It's not quite soft enough to shape itself properly to the surface, but you can get the general idea.