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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
On the contrary. Education is going to require hardened DRM for textbooks that cannot be taken out of the (Amazon) system. Maybe they will add features to export the notes only, and to properly view them you have to put them on your own Scribe, and you have to have bought the textbook yourself for them to make sense. So that you can freely share notes, but not the book itself.
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Course materials in the form of PDF or Word documents ('handouts' if you will) are not going to be DRM hardened. One can have them all on Scribe for markup and completing assignments involving these. That's what I had in mind at any rate.
And with Notebook you can take class notes on something which doesn't need to be plugged in (laptop) or make typing noises that might be distracting. Some claim handwriting is better for 'retention' than typing. It's certainly more efficient to mix text and drawings than using a computer or tablet.
Textbooks, of course, are DRM hardened and available in Kindle formats, including Print Replica. And you can export notes from those. Once Print Replica is properly supported, you can have all of these plus any course materials on Scribe.
As to handwriting recognition, I think it will probably become available eventually, at least to extent that you can search notebooks and find stuff, at least.