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Originally Posted by Anarel
Why a touch screen?
You can take notes and add comments perfectly well with the Kindle's keyboard. Are you meaning to write handwritten notes on another e-reader's screen?
To me that doesn't sound so nice... have you ever signed for a package on that electronic signature pad?
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What are you doing in academic papers? Usually, you'll scribble a formula to the edge of the screen. Or you'll mark some text passages and link them with arrows or something like that.
In my scripts, I've rarely added actual text, it always was graphs, formulas, symbols and things like that.
With a touchscreen unit, you freely can jot onto your documents. And you permanently will see those jots, whereas on Kindle and other readers you usually hide those fields, because they would overlay your text.
The colleague I've mentioned in my first post, was missing exactly that feature on his Sony.
Still, even with the most advanced scribbling functions, each reader will be a compromise at best. It's way easier, to sort your handwritten notes into a binder, add stick-it notes and can open 5 pages at once.
But, in my opinion (using some of my readers for "professional" purposes), touchscreen readers are closer to the "real deal" than the others.
And (but maybe that's just me): I'm way faster in jotting down some quick comment via handwriting, than actually typing on those small keyboards - or even worse via onscreen keyboards. (Meaning: Comparing physical keyboard to virtual one, Kindle beats nook for typing notes.)