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Old 06-04-2010, 12:10 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by mrpotts View Post
I need to be able to read a pdf on the ereader, highlight text, save, and then drag back to a PC without losing the pdf or highlights. Having text notes do the same thing would be awesome but I can compromise on this.
Hi, Phil. Welcome to MobileRead!

The problem, as I understand it, is DRM PDF support. Adobe Digital Editions PDFs don't offer a way to do this so, in order to not be limited to just non-DRM PDFs, device makers do annotation and highlights as a separate layer that's not a part of the actual PDF and which is saved in a separate file. It wouldn't be legal to alter the original DRM PDF. This means it's not portable -- there's no universal standard for such auxiliary files.

Something like that, anyway. If there were no DRM we'd already have a number of devices with such capabilities, I think.
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