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This is currently at the top of my list of next purchases. Out of curiosity, has your experience using it this way been good? Also curious if you've tried using Oreilly's web platform on it for consuming technical material.

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If it's for reading only, it's fine, but if you plan on doing a lot of writing and markup, skip it. The handwriting features are very limited, and you can't write on the actual pages or write margin notes at all, you can only write on virtual post-it notes that are kept separate from the book.

So many better e readers at that price point that also function as actual phones or tablets and run Android.

Sure, it's no longer a super niche field. I don't really want a smart e-ink tablet, though. Just something to read technical books and occasionally browse the web (for the same content, basically).

I got one but ended up returning it. My use case was for reading technical books, PDFs and taking notes. I went back to using an iPad when I realised the scribe was heavier.

I read normal books on the kindle, PDFs on the iPad.

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