iPad with Apple Pencil (iBook/Kindle/etc)

Please refer to my explanation above. In short: no. You cannot write in any ebook. As iBooks is just an Apple-enhanced type of the ebook format, this not not possible. You have to convert any ebook or iBook into PDF before you are able to write or draw in it.

Only notes and highlighting are possible as they can flow with the text.

Sorry, I think you misunderstood my meaning, and to a degree other people's complaint. In the kindle app for example you can seamlessly download many dictionaries easily ( which is a neither the problem, nor the complaint) the problem is that if a new term comes up in that same book (and it is a legal or medical term) the software reacts by saying the definition is unavailable. Obviously, having every word in every language defined on the system hard disk would be a waste a space. However, to say it is unreasonable for these people to expect that grabbing a definition for commonly used medical terminology would be easy is insane, currently this segment has to go out and buy a separate dictionary app? Really!? My point is that since the device is basically always connected it should be easy to incorporate a simple line of code to go get these definitions, furthermore since the downloadable dictionaries in these apps contain all major translation dictionaries and many different publishers mainstream collegiate dictionaries, it doesn't seem like it should be so difficult to incorporate the ability to incorporate a basic med or law dictionary as an available download. The offense wasn't taken to the suggestion of having to hit the download button so much as the suggestion that expecting these things to be available makes this group "completely unreasonable"

I see. So instead of editing an available dictionary or buying a new one you prefer to fill in a personal one that gathers the terms needed from the internet wherever they are available? Sounds like some sort of “wiktionary“, which is a very good idea.

Since people could contribute to that, some sort of Wikipedia connector might be a start.

No, I am saying that since the system facilitates attaining an INTEGRATED oxford and Merriam Webster dictionaries it should be really simple to make a Merck med term or blacks law dictionary available. The fact that I have to keep restating this in different ways makes it clear that you have never studied either field, so you should probably ease off the condescension. It is reasonable to expect that a product marketed as valuable to a field to students in that field contain features that make life easier for those in that field.

Is this your attempt to illustrate irony?

The fact that I have to keep restating this in different ways makes it clear that you have never studied either field,

so you should probably ease off the condescension.

If so, brilliantly done.

Ok good point! You both have convinced me that anybody studying medicine or law is clearly STUPID to think that a medical dictionary or legal dictionary should be available without going out and buying yet another app. The shear idea that someone would think that these dictionaries could come as a standard feature is just ridiculous. Totally unreasonable to think that the app developers preparing software, FOR TEXTBOOKS, could cram such a large library of data (approx. 10MB) into one of these devices or make such things available. Such terms as "scienter" and "erythema" should require a student to go out and buy another app and constantly switch back and forth.

The original term I took issue with was one person insulting an entire group of students for suggesting that these concerns be addressed. I don't like when people Attack others without justification (just a quirk of mine) especially when there insulting tone is so rooted in misunderstanding. I honestly could care less at this point about the feature or this absurd argument about how stupid I am to think a the previous poster was justified in suggesting that medical and legal dictionaries could be included. Color me trolled and let's just move on.

I agree, iOS11 has added some great functionality.

The first thing you should do is convert your ebooks to PDF format. Then, import the PDFs into iBooks.

https://www.ereader-palace.com/convert-apple-ibooks-pdf/

This is an excellent point! I came here looking to be able to annotate ebooks on iPad with Apple Pencil. It seemed like such an obvious thing. But I understand why there is this limitation. Ebook formats are designed to adjust baseed on screen size, orientation, font size, font type, etc. There is no way you could annotate on an ebook format and expect it to retain a consistent location. Obviously some things (writing in the margins) can move a little without much issue, while other things (such as circling a particular phrase) would be way off.

Converting to PDF would certainly solve this issue. But of course PDF viewers aren’t typically designed for reading long books so it would likely have a lot of other difficulties (such as chapter support, etc). The best of both worlds would be for kindle/iBooks to have a “convert to PDF” option, where you could then continue reading it in that same app with the ability to mark up with Apple Pencil

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

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

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Old post.

My bad.

Nevermind.

Older posting.

You are probably using your Surface Pro 3.

Nevermind.

Your original post is 5 months old.

Liquid text pro?

Thank you for the re-direction, I'm obviously new to the forums. It does seem that our concerns are largely fixed by the iOS11 update, which is great news!

Thank you again,

See my previous posts about this.

You maybe able to bring iBooks/eBooks into other notes/PDF apps for marking up and other notation, including bringing in entire iBooks/eBooks into Notability.