Sony DPT-RP1 is good for reading, but could be great

I've owned the Sony DPT-RP1 eReader for a year. If you read technical papers (8.5 x 11), and want eInk, it's a good product. In May Sony announced a welcome firmware update. This adds improvements to the reading experinece (Page Jump, Page Thumbnails Mode), but I don't believe Sony understands note taking.

1) Highlights. I forgive Sony for not converting my handwriting into machine-text, but what about highlighted text? It's the first step in a Copy-Paste. If Sony understood note-taking, DPT-RP1 would export your highlights into plain-text file.

For example, here is a note I hand-typed on my laptop 2014-01-06: 100.1 "It is misspent effort to try to enlighten humankind. One has to be content with being wise oneself, if one can, but leave the mob to error and strive only to keep it from crimes that disturb the social order." (Frederick II of Prussia in a letter ot d'Alembert, 1770)"

Highlight text and the DPT-RP1 should automatically add page.paragraph, and save to plain-text.

2) Search for Marks. The DPT-RP1 can search a document for hand written marks (star) & (asterix). Why only these two marks? In the book "How To Read A Book" by Adler & Van Doren (NY: Simon & Schuster 1940, 1972), the authors describe the purpose of marginalia: “...these notes primarily concern the structure of the book, and not its substance—at least not in detail.” (p52)

I regularly use a small set of marks to describe the structure of a book I'm reading (https://goo.gl/4zsVjJ).

3) Chrome Browser has extensions, why not DPT-RP1?. If Sony doesn't want to improve the DPT-RP1, why not allow third-parties? Here is a short list of useful Chrome extensions:'

- Multi-Highlight. Takes a list of strings, and highlights those strings on a webpage.

- Bookmark Tagging. Manage your bookmarks with tags and folders.

- Super Simple Highlighter. Persistent text highlights on a webpage. Highlights can be tagged, color coded and exported as Markdown.