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To use the DR1000 for academic purposes, I would think one would at least want the text selection and extraction functionality available in one of the community-developed iPDF variants. Better still, there should be an application on the desktop/laptop side that can interface the extracts with a bibliography database. Hopefully cross-platform. The ability to "tag" selections with user-created tags and export those would be good, too. Or the ability to attach and extract scribbles as visual notes, and indicate where in the document they came from (per page on PDF, perhaps per line for other, less strictly paginated documents), and the ability to quickly jump forward to scribbles. Possibly even the ability to roughly convert scribbles to searchable text, so one could search notes (on a document or standalone) for specific content.
I'm preparing to start my literature review for my dissertation, and if I were able to mark up and extract significant points from the journal articles I'll be reviewing, and import them into some kind of reference database that I could then search through by actual text or by selected topic tag, it would be tremendously helpful. That's what I keep hoping someone will develop for the iLiad. I'd pay for the software to accomplish these tasks.
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