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"Too much and Too little"
2.5 starsPros: the pen is one of a kind, and does provide the features it says at a great level
Cons: the product has too many bugs, like any other recording device it can skip and also when taking notes it only gets about 60-70% of the writing, if you draw anything complex, it wont get it.
Summary: it not a great a product, im actually a little disappointed to see CNET rate such a bad item so high, Target and Best buy sell so few of these each month. its really more a gimmick pen and it does not record notes well at all.
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I also have to agree with my fellow commentator the pen gets everything I write. It is photographing it so it looks like what I wrote in the book from handwriting to scribbles. It is not intended too replace a Wacom but it can function as a mouse substitute. So its great for use with a laptop. It does handwriting and records sketches. But it is not a fine art tool. It does not have 250 levels of pressure sensitivity or detect the angle of the pen in relation to the paper. It doesn't do calligraphy.
It most certainly records notes well. Its a pen. It puts them to paper so you have a hard copy and a digital copy. Meanwhile it is recording everything you missed writing while you were frantically trying to keep up with the speaker. So its more perfect at taking notes than you ever could be. And after the fact if you want to add notes whil you are listening, it lets you do that too. -
I don't know how you are writing, but 60-70 percent is about 40-30 percent less than what my pen is able to capture. Frankly, it's caught every word I've written down. And, no, you can't completely fill in the page with a drawing -- the pen needs to see the dots -- but Livescribe doesn't market the pen as a complex drawing instrument.
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