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Originally Posted by talaivan
Well, if they manage to make the workflow transparent, so one can mark up a pdf on the Scribe and then download it again as a pdf, that would make the Scribe much more useful. It does do a very good job when one writes on the screen with the pencil -- obviously better than an iPad in terms of smoothness etc. I guess in one respect the Scribe is a bit like the iPad: the hardware is much better than the firmware. I also have an Elipsa, but writing with the Kobo pen (which needs a battery) is not as smooth or easy as on the Scribe. Also, of course, the Elipsa has a lower resolution and only a blue background light, and so its screen is not as good as the Scribe's. One final thing: it would be very useful if Amazon would allow one to download the marked-up pdf to a cloud account of some sort that is also accessible from a computer (e.g. Dropbox).
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Actually it sends email with a link to download, not as attachment. The link expires after 7 days. You can share with anybody, there's no login. But the URL looks like it has encryption key in it so the endpoint will reject things that don't have it. Secure in that sense.
And I do think the PDF will eventually be the one you sent, plus whatever annotations you've made to it at the time you request Share. It wouldn't be very useful otherwise.
But as I think of it, there's another case: you send a PDF that already has annotations. Probably not going to see them on Scribe, at least not with some additional attention in the import service. PDF has a lot of different markup options and there are only a couple of them on Scribe. Would be interesting to test, just to confirm there's nothing there at the moment to handle it. And I would be surprised if Amazon's planning to handle this case, it seems gnarly.
But already I haven't done the other things I've been wanting to try ...