Maybe you know about the LiveScribe SmartPen: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00524DLZ0/ https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00524DLZ0/ This was a really ni

Maybe you know about the LiveScribe SmartPen: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00524DLZ0/ https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00524DLZ0/ This was a really nice product, until the company decided to go for the "smartphone app" experience and changed everything about it drastically. I sought out and bought the older version (the second gen) because it actually had all the features I expected. The concept is out there, but with the following improvements you can get the experience you seek: make the pen slimmer and more natural to hold, make the special paper look more like normal paper, and have a pen dock which does all the magic of syncing and creation of digital notes etc. Bonus if it were somehow possible to replicate the pixelation of the special notebook on a carbon-paper style sheet so that you can just use whatever notebook you wanted and insert this special sheet underneath. Also about random access: I have always wondered why the eReader software never has a mode where when you scroll on the play head, it shows the current page, plus 2 pages before and 3 after (all displayed as smaller thumbnails, sort of like Netflix). Wouldn't that be at least a little closer to the flipping experience?