[mptmobilereade]

The annotations are not part of the text meaning there is a subscript, you have to click on it, and it appears at the bottom of the screen. That is a clumsy way to support annotations. Marginalia is such an important part of reading comprehensive texts and interacting with the text, and is a non-negotiable tenet of academic reading. Yes, the K2 does have annotation, but there is a lot of research that clearly suggests that annotations should NOT interrupt reading. The Kindle function is a near disaster. Of late, the pilot studies at 6 colleges, which included Princeton University, reported that students uniformly rejected the Kindle DX because of the cumbersome notation/annotation functionality. The general finding was that the Kindle offered no relative advantage over printed texts. More pointedly, the e-reader was actually an impediment because of cumbersome annotation ability. Other issues were reported, but this was by bar the most prevalent finding of the pilot studies across all of the schools. There is a long way to go still before any e-reader can support academic texts. Although over 10 years into this foray, we are still mostly in the innovative stages of product designs. We'll probably need at least several more years before any device appears that is truly equivalent to the printed text. Leisure reading is well supported with e-readers, but that's about where it ends.