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Originally Posted by BWhite
Where I am at is wondering if the iPad processor has sufficient power to run a high-quality handwriting recognition application - not electronic ink, but actual handwriting to digital character conversion.
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Yes. See the existing app WritePad. I have it running on my iPod Touch.
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Originally Posted by BWhite
o the iPad is not an iPhone and the new SDK (which some have looked at) is being reported on the web as treating the iPad as a "shared folder". No way of knowing if they have that correct.
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This would make a lot of sense. It's probably handled through wifi. I'm not sure how PC users see Macs that are sharing content-- I've only gotten the other direction to work so far. Samba, maybe?
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Originally Posted by BWhite
So what I am looking at, the reality I think, is multiple Master Libraries on my PC - one for each Web Bookstore. And each Master Library will have to have a corresponding iPad app - for that Web Bookstore.
And the idea of one eReader App on the iPad is a fantasy, reading a particular book means I will have to know which Web Bookstore I acquired it from. This is what I think I am looking at.
Or sign over my soul to iBooks, walk either path.
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Your other option is to break all the DRM and keep your ebooks in Calibre and read in Stanza. It's the most user-friendly solution, especially with plug-ins being written for Calibre to incorporate DRM-stripping algorithms. Whether this is legal in your jurisdiction, I can't say.