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mptmobilereade · 05-25-2010, 08:03 PM

I am researching the note taking capabilities of e-reader devices. The Amazon Kindle is perhaps one of the better devices for highlighting and annotations, but caveat emptor! At best, the note taking functionality is cumbersome. It's fine for occasional highlights or notes. The notes are not part of the text, like students would write in the margins. Also the fact that one has to manipulate the cursor to highlight makes it time consuming, which greatly slows down the reading process. Reading large texts can become frustrating if you were constantly highlighting or annotating. I would say that on a very limited basis, the functionality is usable. There has been little widespread adoption of any e-reader device by students because of the cumbersome nature of annotating texts. To date, no other device has addressed this issue, so in the land of the blind, the Kindle is the one eyed king.

05-25-2010, 08:03 PM	#7
mptmobilereade Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2010 Device: none	Note Taking on Kindle I am researching the note taking capabilities of e-reader devices. The Amazon Kindle is perhaps one of the better devices for highlighting and annotations, but caveat emptor! At best, the note taking functionality is cumbersome. It's fine for occasional highlights or notes. The notes are not part of the text, like students would write in the margins. Also the fact that one has to manipulate the cursor to highlight makes it time consuming, which greatly slows down the reading process. Reading large texts can become frustrating if you were constantly highlighting or annotating. I would say that on a very limited basis, the functionality is usable. There has been little widespread adoption of any e-reader device by students because of the cumbersome nature of annotating texts. To date, no other device has addressed this issue, so in the land of the blind, the Kindle is the one eyed king.