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.

iPad Pro, iOS 10.2.1

Posted on Jan 31, 2017 7:46 PM

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tboett

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Posted on Sep 23, 2017 3:23 AM

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.

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Jun 23, 2017 4:15 AM in response to ackackackhelpme

Liquid text pro?

Jul 1, 2017 5:52 PM in response to LACAllen

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,

MichelPM

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Aug 25, 2017 6:59 PM in response to tecsi12

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.

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