I Will Buy A Kindle When…
1) I can annotate my e-book just like a real book.
2) I can upload some or all of my annotations to an online database or program.
3) I can access the passages I’ve annotated (and the annotations) from any online device and sort by time, book, subject, etc. for use in composing a report, paper, or article.
Bonus: I can access other users’ annotations for the books I own.
“The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn’t think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.” Steve Balmer