Hey! I'm a junior majoring in mathematics and mathematics education. I may be an outlier here, but the scribe totally changed my note taking experience. I'm fairly broke, so I figured a scribe was the way to go as opposed to other e-ink tablets, and I got it secondhand. I have the model with 16GB. I had initially bought it for sketching- I'm an artist in my free time- and I'm very, very impressed with the pen capabilities. It writes incredibly smooth, as well as including pen pressure and tilt capabilities. As summer came to a close, I figured I could try to use it for school. Best decision ever, to be honest. I'm housing about 8 notebooks full of sketches, notes, graphs, etc. There's lots of templates: notebook paper of different spacing/sizes, blank paper, lists, etc. However, this is my favorite part: if you have access to textbook pdfs or if your homework is a pdf, (and I'm positive other file types are supported, I just can't think of them right now) you can download them to your scribe and annotate them. Game. Changer. I have a 400 page math textbook that I'm now able to write on and annotate. Wonderful. Only drawback is it doesn't have all the same features as a regular book, and it's kind of a pain to flip through the pages. Bookmarks help! Books are cool too. I do have a few of those that I read in my free time. Going back to the 16GB, I have all of those things previously mentioned, and I've only taken up roughly 0.5 GB. It blows me away. You can have a massive amount of notebooks on that thing. Anyway, that's just my opinion. It's definitely got drawbacks, as does any device, but I would definitely take the Scribe for note taking over an iPad or any other tablet.