The Kno "...emphasizes the ability to take notes and seamlessly integrate your own thought with the information that you are reading." That's a software thing,

The Kno "...emphasizes the ability to take notes and seamlessly integrate your own thought with the information that you are reading." That's a software thing, not a hardware thing. The iPad can certainly allow this kind of functionality in an app. The quoted statement sounds like it's celebrating purpose-built hardware rather than general purpose touch computing. Having these features in every ebook reader would certainly be a benefit.