Marginalia

[Phebe]

I read non-fiction books hard. With a flexible see-thru ruler in my left hand and a gel pen in my right, I underline my way through.

And copious marginalia: notes or sarcastic comments or sad and smiley faces. If the book makes me mad or inspired I fill the margins with argument.

The Sony Reader is fine for fiction because I can bookmark the occasional profound thought I want to recall, and I don't scribble on fiction much.

Any chance of Sony making possible highlighting (my underlining) or notetaking that incorporates itself onto the page? They'd have to have a keyboard of some kind.

I know true librarian types flinch at this kind of behavior, but my complete collection of Poe has a whole section on Poe's marginalia in other people's books --- so it's not just me who does that.

[igorsk]

Well, theoretically it's possible but with the existing input options it will be very slow and cumbersome. You'll be much better off with iLiad or a PocketPC/Palm.

[alex_d]

I just mumble to myself instead. Saves on pens. You know, sometimes it seems to me that when you write down an idea, it just leaves your brain faster.

[yvanleterrible]

I have a notebook where I put up inspirations the reading provoques.

[scottcstoness]

Originally Posted by Phebe

Any chance of Sony making possible highlighting (my underlining) or notetaking that incorporates itself onto the page? They'd have to have a keyboard of some kind.

I don't know about highlighting per se, but it would presumably be fairly easy to recognize a press of the mark key as marking the page, and a double-click of the mark key as a request for a "highlight", which would bring up the numbered arrows on the right-hand side that you see in the menu, allowing you to bookmark with accuracy of 1/10 of a page, which is pretty close....

ScS