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iPad with Apple Pencil (iBook/Kindle/etc)

Is there an app or any software that will allow me to use an iPad or iPad Pro as my ebook and write freehand using the Apple Pencil?

I need to be able to draw graphs, do calculations, and write notes while reading my text books via iBook or Kindle app.  I am thinking about buying an iPad to download the next two years of ebooks on it, but if I cannot write notes, I think I will just use my Surface Pro 3.  I will pay what I need to for the Apple Pencil and software/apps...thoughts?!  School starts in a couple weeks and I DO NOT want to use my surface pro 3, but will if I need to. 

No personal experience with Apple Pencil, but see if anything here answers your question:

https://www.macworld.co.uk/feature/iosapps/best-handwriting-apps-for-ipad-ipad-pr o-2017-3635868/

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There are many Apps that will let you use the Pencil to write notes and draw and do other things.

This would all be separate to whatever you do on iBooks.

In iBooks you can use the Apple Pencil to highlight passages in different colors, but i do not believe there is an option for drawing on an iBook.

https://www.imore.com/how-highlight-apple-pencil-ibooks

Beyond that, you can have iBooks and a secondary App open in Split View(as long as the App supports it) to read from the iBook and write or draw on the secondary App.

At its most basic the default Notes app that is pre-installed on an iPad will let you do this.

About Multitasking on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch - Apple Support

The answers on this page have helped me decide to not buy an iPad pro. I thought it would be great to have the ability to notate without clunky on-screen keyboards a book. Serious people using books for serious purposes not only highlight, but also notate. A basic function of a real book is to have a margin which intellectuals for years had used to mark up, write notes to themselves. They become a literary treasure for famous writers papers when they pass on, like Lorraine Hansberry for example. It gives insight into how the person thinks. For actual study of any topic it is important. If you are a student of Neuroscience, you'll have a ton of new words to learn that won't appear in an on-line dicitionary. There will be concepts that need short descriptions. The notation needs to be easy and visible. E-books need to replicate real books perfectly and be more convenient, otherwise a real book is better, even if it weighs something more. Light reading of novels doesn't require this, but study does. Apple needs to fix this, Kindle needs to fix it too.

Real books have a physicality You read a book, put it down go to work, you come home, its where you put it.But in an iPad it might be there but gets lost in the clutter. That's why you need to make the eBook better in someways.

If eBooks can be converted to PDFs or your books come in a PDF format, there are lots of PDF editing apps and notes apps that can edit and highlight PDFs.

You can even take screenshots of ebook pages and highlight and add notes to these screenshots using notes apps thst can work with highlighting and working over images.

You have to think different when it comes to using iPads for education.

Many students use iPads instead of laptops for school and college, now!

There are notes apps that will, also, let you record the instructor's voice in class for voice notes!

Do a search on YouTube for videos to see if you can use an iPad for college.

Search

Using iPads in College or Using iPads in Universities.

BTW,

You don't necessarily need to more expensive iPad Pro and Apple Pencil to use an iPad for work/schoolwork!

You can purchase a cheaper, plain 9.7 inch iPad like an iPad Air 2 OR the new 2017 iPad 5 and purchase a cheaper third party Bluetooth smart stylus from Wacom, Adonit or The Joy Factory that work with very well with non-Pro iPad models.

Good Luck!

Old post.

My bad.

Nevermind.

Older posting.

You are probably using your Surface Pro 3.

Nevermind.

Your original post is 5 months old.

Totally agree. Also, writing in the margins is one of the most helpful ways to engage with the text; it's actually a learning tool. If I'm reading a novel for pleasure, it's no big deal. But if I'm trying to learn something, I want to highlight, take notes in the margins, underline, throw in an exclamation point or question mark, etc. I'm surprised there isn't more demand, especially in the education context.

Liquid text pro?

After just 2 days using my iPad Pro 10.5", I have found two critical flaws with the use of iBooks for medical school purposes, both of which can (and must) be addressed by Apple.

(1) Inability to annotate iBooks using Apple Pencil - This is the subject of the current post, and has to be addressed ASAP. If the iPad Pro is truly a device for professionals, it needs to meet the needs of said professionals.

(2) Lack of medical dictionary (or ability to add other professional terminology) - this is a major deficiency, since students are often exposed to a long list of new terms in each subject area. This concern extends beyond the medical profession.

pepinme01 wrote:

 

After just 2 days using my iPad Pro 10.5", I have found two critical flaws with the use of iBooks for medical school purposes, both of which can (and must) be addressed by Apple.

 

(1) Inability to annotate iBooks using Apple Pencil - This is the subject of the current post, and has to be addressed ASAP. If the iPad Pro is truly a device for professionals, it needs to meet the needs of said professionals.

 

(2) Lack of medical dictionary (or ability to add other professional terminology) - this is a major deficiency, since students are often exposed to a long list of new terms in each subject area. This concern extends beyond the medical profession.

1.  Wait for iOS 11.  Beyond that it meets the needs of many professionals.  Just not the specific type you need. But that does not in any way make it any less of a tool for professionals . It just depends on the type of professional.  I consider myself a professional, not in a medical field, but a professional nonetheless.  Just because it does not completely meet your needs does not make it any less of a tool for other professions whose needs it does meet.

2.  Since its completely unrealistic to expect a device to have a dictionary of terms for every conceivable profession and field of study out there right out the box, these devices come with an App Store and iBooks Store you can use to download any dictionaries you may need that are oriented to any particular profession you may require.  Not everything needs to be built in. 

1) I am a participating member of the medical education committee at my institution, and as a group we all agreed that this is truly a 'critical' flaw that makes it unusable for medical professionals. Two weeks ago we met with an Apple representative to help us develop iBooks for the medical curriculum, and these two issues arose that shut down the discussion (this and a storage issue with embedded videos). The literature pertaining to information processing and retention point to more interactive learning tools, which was the goal in using iBooks.

2) It is actually very realistic to expect a device to incorporate new "custom" dictionaries. Since I am in the medical field, I have actually done this for Microsoft Office applications on my MacBook with no problem (just needed to import a .dic file with the appropriate terminology).

Just did a search in the iOS App Store.

There is a whole bunch of medical terminilogy apps there and you could copy and paste these into other apps like PDF apps and other notes apps that are compatible with the Apple Pencil.

Thank you for looking into this; I will give it a try and provide an update. The Apple representative suggested that, within iBook Author, creating an index containing terminology. However, this would be unfeasible given the number of terms. Anyway, I will post here what I find.

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