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The Paper Replay function lets you record a lecture while taking notes at the same time. The finished product is affectionately called a pencast. When you’re listening to a pencast, you can select a word by tapping on it in your notes. Then, the pen plays back whatever audio it recorded at that point in your writing. You can share these pencasts with other people using the Livescribe Web site and desktop software. The app is free, so anyone with a computer can watch. Yes, watch. Viewing a pencast is a unique experience indeed. You see your handwriting appear on the computer screen in front of you as the audio plays back.

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Laptops at best reduce education to the clackety-clack of transcribing lectures on shiny screens and, at worst, provide students with a constant escape from whatever is hard, challenging or uncomfortable about learning.

Lawyers can acquire hallmark precision only through repeated exercises of concentration. It does happen on occasion that a client loses millions of dollars over a misplaced comma or period.Once, a senior associate for whom I was working berated me for such a mistake and said, “Getting these things right is the easy part, and if you can’t get that right, what does it say about your ability to analyze the law properly?” I learned my lesson

Students need two skills to succeed as lawyers and as professionals: listening and communicating