With Jharker and Ricewind's iPDF enhancements (http://forum.irexnet.com/viewtopic.php?t=1313), it's now much better to take notes with ipdf. Not only do you get a true full screen, but the power savings help greatly (testing battery life as we speak).

I've made a 50 page lined paper pdf with this site here: http://incompetech.com/graphpaper/lined/ so that it fits well on the screen. There is a url at the bottom that I did not remove. The site itself only has the ability to output a single page, but I used my handy linux pdf printer to create more.

This could be convenient considering how much time the iLiad normally takes to make new pages in "notes" mode. Is this faster?

Just as fast a turning a page in a PDF... With the power saving patches, it's probably a full second and a half to two seconds