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leebase · 12-04-2014, 07:26 PM

I'm sure there was a "best practices for making the most of stone tablets" or "papyrus" too.

There are a myriad of ways and tools to take advantage of an iPad that I wouldn't trade for writing in the pages of a book. Not least of which is that I can actually have my entire library with me all the time, and backups to boot.

Take the bible. I have had numerous, fine leather bibles over the years. Underlines, highlights. And then I lose them. And start over with the next. Now when I highlight a scripture it gets sync'd to the cloud and all my other bibles. I can open any translation and my highlighted scriptures are still highlight. I can type in notes right along with the scriptures and these too are backed up and synced. My notes aren't limited to the space I have between the lines or in the margins. And while I wouldn't want to type a thesis on my iPad, I have no problem thumb typing quick notes of the type I'd be writing by hand in the margins of a book. When I buy a new iPad, I get all of these reloaded. When I switch to my phone, I still have all of my highlights and notes available.

But wait, there's more. I can search and find anything by word or phrase. I can touch a word and have a definition pop up and/or a link to a web article for more information.

Not done yet. My bible software company has LOTS of other books that I can buy. Dictionaries, commentaries, histories, maps. All of the books sync up with the bible so as I go from passage to passage, I have an incredible amount of relevant resources ready at my fingertips.

If I REALLY want to hand write notes, I certainly can. I can have a paper notebook out next to me on my desk. Then I can snap a picture of the notes and have that right there in the text of the book I'm reading too.

I can copy the text out of my book easily as well. Many of my book apps actually include the source info after the text when I copy. And while, as I said, I'm not going to thumb type a term paper, I can cut/paste these snippets into Evernote or OneNote and have them instantly sync'd to my PC or Mac versions of these apps where I DO write long documents.

I'll take annotation on my iPad over a paper book any day.

12-04-2014, 07:26 PM	#22
leebase Karma Kameleon Posts: 2,975 Karma: 26738313 Join Date: Aug 2009 Device: iPad Mini, iPhone X, Kindle Fire Tab HD 8, Walmart Onn	I'm sure there was a "best practices for making the most of stone tablets" or "papyrus" too. There are a myriad of ways and tools to take advantage of an iPad that I wouldn't trade for writing in the pages of a book. Not least of which is that I can actually have my entire library with me all the time, and backups to boot. Take the bible. I have had numerous, fine leather bibles over the years. Underlines, highlights. And then I lose them. And start over with the next. Now when I highlight a scripture it gets sync'd to the cloud and all my other bibles. I can open any translation and my highlighted scriptures are still highlight. I can type in notes right along with the scriptures and these too are backed up and synced. My notes aren't limited to the space I have between the lines or in the margins. And while I wouldn't want to type a thesis on my iPad, I have no problem thumb typing quick notes of the type I'd be writing by hand in the margins of a book. When I buy a new iPad, I get all of these reloaded. When I switch to my phone, I still have all of my highlights and notes available. But wait, there's more. I can search and find anything by word or phrase. I can touch a word and have a definition pop up and/or a link to a web article for more information. Not done yet. My bible software company has LOTS of other books that I can buy. Dictionaries, commentaries, histories, maps. All of the books sync up with the bible so as I go from passage to passage, I have an incredible amount of relevant resources ready at my fingertips. If I REALLY want to hand write notes, I certainly can. I can have a paper notebook out next to me on my desk. Then I can snap a picture of the notes and have that right there in the text of the book I'm reading too. I can copy the text out of my book easily as well. Many of my book apps actually include the source info after the text when I copy. And while, as I said, I'm not going to thumb type a term paper, I can cut/paste these snippets into Evernote or OneNote and have them instantly sync'd to my PC or Mac versions of these apps where I DO write long documents. I'll take annotation on my iPad over a paper book any day.