e-readers

I love the portability!! It easily fits in my purse or computer case and a giant "book" doesn't add weight or bulk. 

However, I am already seeing that it is likely to remain limited to recreational reading. Once I got over the taboo of [gasp!!] writing in a book (!!!) I became an unstoppable margin noter. While you can technically write notes with the kindle, you can't actually *see* them as part of the text. You have to click over to a separate 'notes' page/chapter. Bleah. Perhaps because I am "older" and not a big texter, I'm also not thrilled with having to essentially thumb-spell said notes (using itty-bitty buttons). 

I find my visual memory for where to find something is taken completely out of the picture. I can't do the  "it's in the first third of the book on the lower half of a right hand page..." when I'm looking for a line or a quote of some sort. 

I find I also miss page numbers...and am now wondering how you would cite a quote if you read the text on an ebook without page numbers...

Last but not least, what's up with books coming "pre-highlighted"? I suppose I could be coaxed into being interested into what other people think is important but 1. I want to read it virgin first, 2. I want to have the choice and last but not least, I want to choose those people rather than have it be any random schmo who also bought the book - especially if it's non-fiction. 

So...yeah, academic reading or even recreational non-fiction not really working for me in that format. Which is too bad, because some of those academic books are tomes that I would love to have in a format that didn't weigh 7 lbs or more. 

Anyone else? Or anyone with solutions to my issues? 

Jane