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This lack of reliable handwriting is definitely an annoying point to me too. That being said, why do you think it won't get any better? Judging by their ads, Sony DPT-RP1 looked great in this respect. (I wonder if the actual experience matched the ad, though.) Furthermore, I wonder what you're referring to about interchangeability: are the current annotated PDFs somehow not interchangeable?

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I have a DPT-RP1 and use it for reading (and annotating) PDFs. It's excellent provided you accept its limitations. It really is a single use device for reading PDFs. That said, I also use it for handwritten notes (easy to export as PDF) and for presenting on-line (convert slides to PDF, use the screen viewer and you can do live annotations--great for remote lecturing).

Limitations... Sony has annoyed me very much with astonishing limitations on a previous laptop. This has seriously tainted the way I see them despite the otherwise great products they build.

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