I have been considering getting a digital book reader for my wife for her birthday, leaning towards either a Kindle 2 or Sony PRS 505. She is in her 2nd year of a PHD program and has to read a lot of journals, articles and such, almost all of which come in PDF format. She hates reading these on a computer screen and thus prints them out, also handy for her for highlighting and making notes. The problem is this uses a lot of paper and ink. I was thinking a digital book reader could be a nice alternative. I understand that with the Kindle the PDFs have to be converted and either downloaded to your Amazon email or into the Kindle directly.My questions are:1. Can these converted PDFs be annotated or sections of them highlighted?2. If they can be annotated can the notes be placed anywhere and are there other limits on notes?3. How easy/cumbersome is it to highlight and annotate?4. Can you save the notes and highlights so they are permanent?5. Will it even work on PDFs that are scanned pages from a book?6. Even though I know this is a Kindle forum some people might know: I figure you can’t do notes on a Sony PRS 505 without it having a keyboard but can you at least highlight with it?Thanks in advance for any answers.

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