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The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet

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Re: The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet

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Post by isolli »

dalbasal wrote: post #16

Nice. I'd like to see e-ink continue to develop. What I want is an e-ink laptop with simple but good word processing, coding, text-mostly browsing, emails and such. I like my reader. It doesn't feel like "device" and I'm much more relaxed using it. Im on my third one and all three were on airplane mode since the day I bought them. Reading on tablet/phone triggers my hyperactive "device mode". Checking emails, hn, tin…

Out of curiosity, what brand of reader do you use?

Re: The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet

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Post by singularity2001 »

This summer I'm planning to code outside. Is the 13' Dasung for $1400 really the best/biggest/'cheapest' the market can offer?? https://www.amazon.com/Dasung-Ink-Paperlike-13-3-Monitor/dp/...

@notemaker Boox Max2 Pro looks better, thanks. Pretty small display, but it's a start.

Re: The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet

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Post by mikekchar »

dalbasal wrote: post #16

Nice. I'd like to see e-ink continue to develop. What I want is an e-ink laptop with simple but good word processing, coding, text-mostly browsing, emails and such. I like my reader. It doesn't feel like "device" and I'm much more relaxed using it. Im on my third one and all three were on airplane mode since the day I bought them. Reading on tablet/phone triggers my hyperactive "device mode". Checking emails, hn, tin…

I desperately want a solution for working outside. E-ink would be absolutely awesome. Unfortunately I don't see anything on the horizon. Even the devices that will work as monitors described in the sibling posts would be problematic because they are simply too big. I need something I can put in my bag and go. I guess I'll have to wait until the rest of society catches up with my nomad-work existence :-)

Re: The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet

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Post by radarsat1 »

I hope this is good, or that they are working on making it better. I love e-ink, far prefer it to reading on my phone, but the last 2 devices I've had have had terrible software, eventually been discontinued, and in any case, the screens have broken. I get the impression e-ink is much more fragile than an LCD, but maybe it's just a question of the build. I've dropped my Huawei many times without breaking it, and although I've seen many iPhones with broken glass, the display and touch input generally remains usable.. on my e-ink devices, in one case a bit of water completely destroyed it, in the other case, I don't know what happened but I took it out of my backpack and it was busted, so it must have been a small shock, as I didn't drop the bag or anything. I'd buy another e-ink device in a heartbeat, but it had better be solid because they aren't cheap.

Re: The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet

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Post by megaman22 »

nicolashahn wrote: post #19

Is this currently my best option for reading black and white PDFs that are formatted for 8.5"x11" paper?

Probably... I picked up a 13" e-ink reader from the Good Ereader folks[1] a couple years back. I'm not sure they're available anymore, but I'm a huge fan of mine. The only downside is it's a little aggravating to find and sideload an old version of the Kindle app that works on it. But for PDFs, it's awesome, and the note-taking with the stylus is really smooth too.

[1] https://goodereader.com/blog/product/good-e-reader-13-3-e-re...

Re: The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet

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Post by moon4u »

igorkraw wrote: post #30

I have this device, and for hackers, this review misses some stuff: * the company behind it is based in norway, so you can be pretty sure the techies got treated well * they abide by the GPL very well * by connecting via USB and flicking a switch in the options menu, you get SSH access, as well as a REST endpoint where you can upload your files via curl. So if you don't like their cloud offering, you can turn of wifi…

Is the response time really that fast? On my e-reader, it takes solid 1 second in the best case (and sometimes more than 3s worst) to switch a page. This device looks really fast. But maybe it's just updating small region and that's why it's so fast?

Re: The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet

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Post by pjmlp »

hueving wrote: post #21
nudpiedo wrote: post #13

It looks promising, I hope it will be the begin of a new era of gadgets with less cognitive load... Does anyone know whether the software is user friendly? E.g. cloud integration, doesn't require to install shitty software, can email documents, etc... Is it hacker friendly? And perhaps write a small app for it (terminal viewer). I wish I could try it in Europe (Germany, Spain or France...)

I want the opposite. No cloud dependencies. Always-connected is a plague on modern computing that has ruined the experience for anyone with slow computers and/or unreliable networks. If you proposed a 3MB web page with 300ms API calls for every action and called that a replacement for an app for anyone with an unreliable/heavily metered connection you would be laughed out of the room. Yet that's the status quo of 'mo…

There a difference though, shinny Web UIs instead of green phosphor character based terminals. :)

Re: The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet

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Post by WillReplyfFood »

chx wrote: post #24

I had a CrossPad twenty years ago. And it feels like this device has improved extremely little from it. The CrossPad was recording what you wrote in a notepad placed on top of it, it had a little radio in the pen, and later you could download what you did, if I remember, in a vector format so it was better than a scanner. The ReMarkable on the other hand, records what you are writing on a screen and later you can dow…

Well, at least its not recording your every stroke, to sell that as "mind-reading" info to advertisers.

How, should we call it when software regresses. Its not bloat- its worser.

Re: The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet

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Post by tzs »

I wish that people who reviewed devices with handwriting support would include some pictures showing math writing. Throw in an electronics schematic diagram or two, also.

I want to know how well the thing works as a STEM writing scratchpad. If it can handle math and electronics reasonably well, that should be sufficient for most STEM.

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