And when handwriting just won't do, there's the Text Notes option, which lets you type your thoughts on the virtual keyboard -- which suffers all the sorts of stuttering lags we've come to expect from touchscreen E Ink keyboards.
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In the study, more than half the students reported feeling frustrated when highlighting text and taking notes within e-books on the iPad.
An Apple official said all notes are text-based and there are no current plans for finger or stylus input.
Today he gave an outstanding speech, without notes or text, a performance that was assured and confident, engaging and near-faultlessly delivered.
Once loaded with text, both the SoftBook and the Rocket EBook act as single-screen tablets that let you use simple buttons and a stylus to select titles, "turn" pages, search and highlight text, and make notes.
It saves your scribbles, notes and underlined text in the document and even lets you share them with other users.
He succeeded brilliantly: 114 detailed maps in line with the text, hundreds of margin notes, a header on every page showing time and place, and 11 appendixes that illuminate military, economic and political concepts of the time.
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You can download notes from your account and when you find a passage in a book that you like, highlight it, click "Send to" and you'll be able to send it to Evernote or Facebook, with that passage remaining highlighted in the text and accessible through the All Notes module.
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Book notes are identified by the text at the top of the page you've scrawled on.
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Messaging apps, known as "over-the-top" apps because consumers don't pay carriers directly for the services, typically go beyond plain-vanilla text messaging with features such as voice notes, camera applications, access to games and virtual stickers that are popular among teens and young adults.
The district says it recognizes parents may be uncomfortable with their children using technology to text and share their STD status, but notes its tech-savvy students have a different perspective.
Default applications include Public Library, Browser, Periodicals (which we sort of wish was grouped in with the books), Notes, Dictionary, Handwriting, Text Memo, Pictures, Settings, Evernote Setup and Facebook Setup.
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S., a leading innovator in optical character recognition (OCR)software, is excited to announce the availability of their IRISNotes 2 lineup, digital pens that capture handwritten notes and convert them into edible text on a computer.
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Readers can swipe a finger to turn a page, zoom in and out by pinching fingers together or apart or write notes on the page or highlight text with a finger or the supplied stylus.
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They can enhance their notes with cool background images, highlighted text, stamps and different text colors.
Aside from tapping out a note, you can also store photos in the app, and you can record voice notes, which Keep then transcribes into text, so you can read or listen to them later.
The novel lacks any text at all, save for scraps of dialogue mostly conveyed in handwritten notes and IM messages.
You can access that option by clicking the Menu button while reading, which makes it possible to take notes (albeit, sloppily written ones) directly on the text.
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The sale's 255 lots range from a 1617 text by John Napier , the inventor of the logarithm, to 14 pages of notes penciled in 1982 by J.
As the name suggests, the former lets you mark up PDFs with text, arrows, shapes and highlighter tools, while the latter collates all the added notes into a single "summary" so users can get a visual overview of what's changed.
They were offered expensive and often pretty rudimentary products, allowing them to dictate medical notes or lengthy legal submissions into a microphone and then have their voices transformed into text.
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