Thanks for stopping by.

I still don’t think ereaders are ready for class work or serious reading. There are more touchscreen ereaders coming out now than there were a year ago, but I wouldn’t feel comfortable using them in any environment where I might have to keep up with people who have paper books, like a classroom.

If you have the money, you can go for a BeBook Neo or an iRex DR800SG, which is a hundred bucks more and has the same kind of half-a-touchscreen (i.e. you can click on things and highlight, but you can’t draw).

Both of those options support Adobe ePub, so at worst, you’ll blow $100-200 more than you need to. Personally, I’m just not impressed with ereader touchscreens.

If I had to buy an ereader right now, I’d still get a Sony Pocket Edition, or an Astak Pocket Pro. I’d use the simple bookmarking system, takes notes with a paper notebook, and save myself the money.

Does that answer your question?

Thanks,

Jocelyn