Originally Posted by oilman:
“What a load of tosh. You would not normally write on a book as it defaces the book.
What has that got to do with wanting to use a reader as a notepad ?
For all I know, OP might be a commuter who reads poetry books on a train. and just wants to conveniently jot some poetic critiques down without having to carry another tablet round.
One man's meat is another man's poison!”
Have you actually used a kindle before or are you just being a troll?
If you had actually bothered to use a kindle before you would know that it has the feature to replicate taking the 'notes in the margin' that people do at times in physical books. That is a natural fit which is why it's included because the book itself ends up acting as the organisational tool for the notes.
What the OP is clearly asking for is an actual notepad which is a whole different beast. Such notes taken in a separate notebook app will usually be more complex, longer and need additional features to organise and catalog the notes you have typed. So it's exactly the same as taking a paper book and using it to write unconnected notes on it, in both cases the hardware of both the kindle and the paperbook and the functionality of both doesn't lend itself to actually taking proper notes.
And why do they need to be carrying a tablet. EVERYONE has a phone in their pocket which are generally designed to be multifunctional and as such are actually much better suited for both storing, organising and most of all typing notes