There is a small cottage industry of paper-feel (or paperlike or paper-type) screen protectors for the iPad that address this issue directly. And as someone who takes handwritten notes on the iPad ...

You can also create new notebooks, skinable with photos and patterns (a simple effect that looks fantastic on screen ... your iPad while sketching, as you would a piece of paper.) ...

Petschnigg locks his wrist into place and pretends to scribble on an imaginary piece of paper ... thought up is the aptly named Paper, designed exclusively for the iPad. It's essentially a ...