E-Readers?

[pica_scribit]

I'm thinking of getting an e-reader, and I was wondering if y'all could help me choose one, since you are readerly types. As you know, I love to write. My personal library serves as my inspiration for a lot of my stories, as well as being a wonderful research tool. I would want the same features from an e-reader. To that end

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[chiv]

you could try asking on ebooklover
Personally I haven't heard of any reader that does a keyword/phrase search and the only reader I am aware of that has a notebook function is the Iliad... but as you've said elsewhere, you'd rather have keys than handwriting recognition (which takes a while to calibrate).

[pica_scribit]

Yeah, given that I sometimes have trouble "recognising" my own writing, and I can type much faster than I can write, it would be good to have that. I know the Kindle at least allows the taking of marginal notes, but I don't know about transferring them to any other format.

It seems odd to me that a gadget with so much potential to be a kickass research tool has been created without thought in that direction.

[tiggothy]

There was an article comparing e-readers over at jessewave's blog not long back - link - after reading it I was feeling rather glad I don't have the money for one or I'd have to get annnoyed at the Nook being US-only, lol.

In addition to that post, one of my writerly-lj-friends got herself a cybook of some sort not long back & from what she said it's a pretty decent machine - a few annoyances at first but all sorted within a day or so with a bit of googling...