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Originally Posted by zerospinboson
sure, but as noted multiple times already (as well as just observable in academia): writing and annotating is something that only very few people apart from scholars (and to a lesser extent students) do.
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You are joking, right?
Firstly, we are not just talking about margin notes in textbooks here - we're taliking about general note taking - using the iLiad as a notebook. Virtually every occupation uses notebooks!
Secondly, even if we were talking about just annotation, it's far from limited to academia. I don't know a single engineer who doesn't write all over his installation and maintenance manuals, or drawings, or even sales literature. Same applies to just about any profession that uses reading material. If they don't do it now, it's only because they'd be destroying a valuable paper copy (I'm often asked not to draw on an engineering drawing as it's "our only copy"), which is an obstacle removed by the iLiad.
Add to that anyone who ever has to fill in a report of any kind (think service engineers), and you can see that the "the market is limited to academia" argument makes no sense at all.
Mark