iPad: Screenwriter's best friend?

Maricris V. Faderugao
BJ 3-1D

From Kindle to Nook and now, ipod to ipad, these days, you need not to buy a book, smell the ink and spines to read. The necessity for information is growing fast in today's fast-paced way of living and we cannot let mother nature to suffer. Still, we have to keep up with the demand.

If you think carrying your library+pen and paper is impossible, I'm going to break it to you, you've got it all wrong.

Scott Stein on CNET news wrote: iPad: Screenwriter's best friend?

The idea of an e-reader actually being used to create notes as well as display text is, at least to me, the real holy grail of all e-reading. The original purpose of e-readers (and the e-ink displays of readers like the Kindle) was to replace the printed page, and most of the paper I waste goes into creating copies of scripts or rough drafts that I then read and make notes on before re-entering edits later on. I do this because, though I love using a laptop to write, I absolutely hate using a laptop to read. Hundreds of old stories and drafts sit in a folder, largely untouched, because they're not easily readable or sharable on a laptop, and I'd rather not waste the paper to print them. Having a diverse e-reader that can not only read e-books but also allow easy note-taking and edits is the desire that turned me off to limited-use devices such as the Kindle, and I'm not the only one.