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Originally Posted by poshm
I am thinking about buying a Kindle (2 or DX) for my hubby.
It needs to be a Kindle for him because he only ever buys pbooks from Amazon and he would want a device where he buys books and they just "appear" as it were.
But he'd also want to be able to do some note-taking for non-fiction books.
Can the Kindle handle this well? Any thoughts / experience appreciated.
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I have a K2 and I'm constantly taking notes and highlighting. All the highlighted passages and notes are stored in a text file named "My Clippings" that can be uploaded to a PC via USB connection. In addition, Amazon keeps a record of all annotations I've made in books bought from them. These notes and highlights are available for download at any time from the Amazon website.
The keyboard buttons, although tiny, are very useful. The Kindle's excellent note-taking and text-copying functions are two of my favorite things about the device.
One caveat: Occasionally an author or publisher will request that the text-copying function for their book be disabled. It's rare, but I've run into at least one ebook that wouldn't allow copying of any of the text (
A Briefer History of Time by Stephen Hawking).