“It’s all done by magic, Archchancellor.” “Ah. Right. None of that complicated business with springs and cogwheels and tubes and stuff, then.” “That’s right, sir. Just magic. Sufficiently advanced magic.” Ponder and Ridcully in “Hogfather” by Terry Pratchett After coming to the conclusion that buying the Kindle Voyager was a mistake, I looked into getting a new iPad. I thought about it for a few days, trying to decide between the iPad mini and the iPad Pro, but finally decided to buy an iPad Pro (the 10.5 inch version). It’s at least twice to trice as expensive as the iPad mini, but it comes with more storage capacity and supports the Apple Pencil. And the videos on YouTube about the Apple Pencil just looked to good. And fortunately, they were not too good to be true. I only had the device for a few days, but reading books with it (using GoodReader), and highlighting content with the Apple Pencil, and making handwritten notes in the Apple Notes app — damn. This works like a charm. Much more precise than anything I ever used on my old iPad 3. Even better, the iOS allows you to have two applications side-by-side (Split [...]
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