Assay: In a novel, a mark of greatness is that a reader can return, over and over, and find something new.

FORBES: Do You Dread To Go Home?

The DR1000 is also the only reader that allows users to mark up documents with a stylus.

FORBES: E-Books

There is a bookmark feature on the Sony Reader such that you can mark multiple passages and pages for later reference, but there's no on-board search capability.

ENGADGET: Sony Reader details and pics

Someone, Mark Hatch, if I had to guess, has left a Square reader just to the left of where we've set up our cameras.

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