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My wife wants to edit and revise her book without printing out 150 odd pages each time and scribbling and drawing all over it with a pen.
1) The MS Surface 3 (basic model) looks pretty good, plus I've found a type cover for it for 20 quid already. Anyone use it for this kind of thing? Making notes, moving text around, adding bits and so on.
2) The other Windows alternative is a cheap Linx 10 tablet with a generic stylus. Looks like the main issue would be with the pen itself - having to flick between drawing and normal mode manually, and then generic styli are supposed to be not as good.
3) Or, something like a Samsung Galaxy Tab that comes with a pen. Is it as fully featured as the Surface pen? Word is available on these, but can you use the ink functionality to annotate?
I have a surface pro for work and the writing on it is one of the things I love about it. I like to draw pictures to explain things and expand on ideas, this allows me to do so without chopping down a few trees every month.
Drawboard PDF (Windows Store app) is great for this sort of thing. I use it on a Surface Pro 3 and have no complaints.
Well we bought one anyway. Thought we were also buying a type cover on clearance for 20 quid, but turns out to be a Surface Pro cover.. bugger.
I don't understand why she can't edit the book in Word, if that's where she wrote it?
She can, but she wants to be able to mark it up in pen. This seemed like a good solution rather than forcing her to work in a way in which she doesn't want, or print out shitloads of paper and then re-type up the changes.
I do agree that you can re-read a ms on Word ten times and not spot a mistake until it's printed on paper. It's annoying.