E-Book readers forum: E-Books as a Research/Notetaking tool.

I'm not sure this really answers my questions.

First, if the issue has been discussed before it would be nice to know where by reference, link, etc.

Definition of terminology would be helpful. By "consumption" I assume that means reading and by "creation" I assume that means writing. I am under the impression that an E reader is something other than a tablet. Perhaps it is a subspecie of a tablet? The virtue of a reader would seem to be 1) it is light weight and as transportable as a book and 2) it presents its information in a form that resembles a page and thus is easy on the eyes by eliminating the glare. I don't know about others but I've never found reading on a computer screen either comfortable or sustainable for lengthier items.

I fully understand that an e-reader is generally not useful for "creation" or writing since they don't come with a regular keyboard or voice recognition software such that you can make extensive notes or commentary. But I understand they do have note-taking capacity similar to writing marginalia. The potential advantages would seem to be 1) quicker access to one's notes and 2) the ability to transfer both the portion of text and one's notes to a creation or writing device such as a PC. My question is: do they really do that and if so which models are the best?

I know that one can do this by using Kindle for PC but that has the serious disadvantage of having to sit at a computer to read.

And since folk could demand I copy every discussion with the same dialog, I'm going to dismiss such requests. If you want to research this, then you can do that.

For now, you seem to be aware of the limitations. And those limitations are harsher and more imposing than on your PC/Apple today. If you feel this is incorrect then what stopped you from buying the ereader?

Here I have the Kindle, many Android tablets and none are good at what you seem to want to do. I can't see any good reason to use such things as the content consumption is BURNED INTO the system. I'm unsure how much clearer I can put this.

There were a few members that thought the content was open for copy/paste but that depends on the reader PLUS the limitations of the content. Some is locked down to the point of read only on the screen without any way to get it except to go get a camera.

From what I think you want to do, you don't want any ereader or current tablet.
Bob

The discussion has been done before. Since I own such things I hope I can shine a light on this, even if some don't like what we see.