I love reading, making margin notes, and keeping a wring binder of more extensive notes for the books I read. Unfortunately I read a lot of books - and have a lot of handwritten ring binder notes that re more or less unusuable becasue of the time costs for me of entering the text for the relevant notes. So recently I purchased MacSpeech Dictate Mac Speech's home page  (I could have chosen Dragon Naturally and used it through Parallels Desktop 3.0 for Mac (Intel on my  Mac - but I chose to go with a native-to-the mac programme that has licensed the Dragon NAturally speech recognition technology).

So attached here is a screen capture of how effective this note taking is. You'll see its not perfect by any means - but a large part of the problem is the lack of clarity in my speech. When I enunciate clearly - instead of slurring words and speaking too quickly the programme does a great job. Moreoever, its actually pretty easy to correct mistakes - either through voice commands or through the usual mouse select cut past retype type commands - or as you'll see in the attached video a combination of the two.

The book I am reading here is Yoram Barzel's An economic theory of the state around page 36 and 37. Here's the book o Amazon: A Theory of the State: Economic Rights, Legal Rights, and the Scope of the State (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)It's slow going as I read and think about what Barzel is saying.....but you can see how it is possible to think off the top of your head as you read, pause to collect your ideas, rephrase them etc using this speech recognition software.