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about 10 years ago i had a sony brand e-reader that had a stylus which enabled seamless underlining / writing on the margins. it's since been discontinued, and

about 10 years ago i had a sony brand e-reader that had a stylus which enabled seamless underlining / writing on the margins. it's since been discontinued, and i haven't ever found anything remotely comparable despite checking in on it every other year or so. it's a real shame.

aidenn0 8y ago
That's my biggest hate for Amazon; the kindle killed of the Sony e-readers. Admittedly they were pricey but they were so much nicer.
cle 8y ago
I do this with an iPad, iBooks, and an Apple Pencil. Works great, and GoodNotes is amazing for scribbling random thoughts and notes as well.
- cryoshon 8y ago
  i understand that this is "the" way to do it these days, but it's way too expensive. the old ereader was maybe $120, and did what i wanted to out of the box and with stellar battery life.
gfodor 8y ago
Check out the Remarkable
- komali2 8y ago
  Found it here: https://remarkable.com https://remarkable.com Looking through the marketing material, this may be exactly what I have been looking for. 600$ a steep price tag. You wouldn't happen to know the file format compatibilities? I'm off on a review search but nobody's mentioned it yet. Edit: according to this review [0], epubs and PDFs. Edit2: er, weirdly, this things pen tips need to be replaced like once a month lol: "An extra set of eight Marker tips costs $12. reMarkable says each tip should last at least three weeks, and that less pressure and usage could extend their life to six weeks." https://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/tablets/remarkable-tablet https://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/tablets/remarkable-tablet
  - huydotnet 8y ago
    There's a $200 Good e-Reader 6.8 [1], there's a bit delay when you making a stroke on the screen, according to the review videos on YouTube. Don't know if anyone ever used it yet, anyone? [1] https://goodereader.com/blog/product/good-e-reader-6-8 https://goodereader.com/blog/product/good-e-reader-6-8
    - komali2 8y ago
      Looks like just an Android tablet running an eink touch display. May be good enough, if there are Android apps available for editing ebooks. If I can't find reviews I might just take the plunge and do my own.
      - komali2 8y ago
        Too late for an edit: I can't find a single review of this device by not-that-company, and also it's not even in stock lol.
  - azeirah 8y ago
    I own one. I use it daily, the part about the toys is very true. It's, I think, 4 - 5 months old now, and I've burned through 4 tips. It comes with 12 tips total though, so that'd be approximately 12$ a year. The bigger problem are not the tips, it's that there are barely any DRM-free ebooks available anywhere, even if you are willing to pay for them ;( I'm still using it on a nearly daily basis though..
komali2 8y ago
Same here!! Drives me crazy. I sometimes take notes in more technical volumes that I'm reading as PDFs on my thinkpad yoga, but I don't want to pull my whole damn laptop out just to read, so I'm reduced to tapping away misspelled notes in my Kindle... Very frustrating.
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aidenn0 8y ago

That's my biggest hate for Amazon; the kindle killed of the Sony e-readers. Admittedly they were pricey but they were so much nicer.

cle 8y ago

I do this with an iPad, iBooks, and an Apple Pencil. Works great, and GoodNotes is amazing for scribbling random thoughts and notes as well.

cryoshon 8y ago
i understand that this is "the" way to do it these days, but it's way too expensive. the old ereader was maybe $120, and did what i wanted to out of the box and with stellar battery life.

gfodor 8y ago

Check out the Remarkable

komali2 8y ago
Found it here: https://remarkable.com https://remarkable.com Looking through the marketing material, this may be exactly what I have been looking for. 600$ a steep price tag. You wouldn't happen to know the file format compatibilities? I'm off on a review search but nobody's mentioned it yet. Edit: according to this review [0], epubs and PDFs. Edit2: er, weirdly, this things pen tips need to be replaced like once a month lol: "An extra set of eight Marker tips costs $12. reMarkable says each tip should last at least three weeks, and that less pressure and usage could extend their life to six weeks." https://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/tablets/remarkable-tablet https://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/tablets/remarkable-tablet
- huydotnet 8y ago
  There's a $200 Good e-Reader 6.8 [1], there's a bit delay when you making a stroke on the screen, according to the review videos on YouTube. Don't know if anyone ever used it yet, anyone? [1] https://goodereader.com/blog/product/good-e-reader-6-8 https://goodereader.com/blog/product/good-e-reader-6-8
  - komali2 8y ago
    Looks like just an Android tablet running an eink touch display. May be good enough, if there are Android apps available for editing ebooks. If I can't find reviews I might just take the plunge and do my own.
    - komali2 8y ago
      Too late for an edit: I can't find a single review of this device by not-that-company, and also it's not even in stock lol.
- azeirah 8y ago
  I own one. I use it daily, the part about the toys is very true. It's, I think, 4 - 5 months old now, and I've burned through 4 tips. It comes with 12 tips total though, so that'd be approximately 12$ a year. The bigger problem are not the tips, it's that there are barely any DRM-free ebooks available anywhere, even if you are willing to pay for them ;( I'm still using it on a nearly daily basis though..

komali2 8y ago

Same here!! Drives me crazy. I sometimes take notes in more technical volumes that I'm reading as PDFs on my thinkpad yoga, but I don't want to pull my whole damn laptop out just to read, so I'm reduced to tapping away misspelled notes in my Kindle... Very frustrating.

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