I always thought Kindle had made a reasonable and intelligent compromise when it comes to annotating and highlighting the ebook formats it supports.
I made my points
elsewhere so I won't go through that here again.
But, you cannot take notes on PDFs ... or could you?
Well, you could!
You just need to "mobize" the PDF. Here's a little proof-of-concept example.
1. Say, we have
this PDF (just one dummy page for simplicity).
2. Now, you slice it into small jpg horizontal stripes (see attached)
3. Put all the slices in an html file, one below the other (see the attached text.zip file)
4. Generate a mobi file out of the html (attached also).
5. Fire it to your Kindle
And there you go!: every slice is an independent picture in a mobi file, so you can put your note on each stripe; and that's more or less what's needed.
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N.B. I reduced these screenshots for this post, they really look much better and totally alright on my Kindle DX; try the attached .mobi yourself!)
I know, I know ... the quality isn't perfect, but hey, I said it was just a proof-or-concept.
I got a bit rusty in programming and don't have too much time, but maybe there is someone around here willing to jump on this and bundle all this workflow (I did with several tools) in a neat all-in-one tool, for the joy of all the PDF-crippled Kindle users?
Cheers.