Wanted: a system for annotating documents on screen.

(From Guardian Unlimited)

I am interested in using a tablet for reading and marking up Word and PDF documents. Ideally, this would involve underlining and adding comments. I am aware that both Windows and Android have software (eg, PDF Annotator for Windows and ezPDF reader for Android), and I want to avoid the walled world of an iPad. A stylus seems essential, and hand-writing recognition a bonus. Also, I'd like at least a 10in screen size for reading documents in portrait mode, where 16:9 seems too narrow. I have used a Lenovo X61 tablet with Wacom input, but for everyday use, it's too heavy! Nomadic11

You sound like the target customer for the stylus-based tablets that Microsoft introduced a decade ago. These had a stylus with the precision required to replace a mouse -- and thus operate existing Windows software -- plus excellent handwriting recognition. However, they didn't …