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The ReMarkable Tablet: A Review

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Re: The ReMarkable Tablet: A Review

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I've stopped using mine. It's gathering dust in a corner somewhere. The hardware is pretty decent, and the writing experience is good. The software, on the other hand, is not good. There have been a couple of updates since I bought it, but they've been few and far between. Everything about it is mediocre. The file manager, meh. The note taking app, meh. The sync, meh. Getting stuff on it automatically is all but impo…

I had the same experience, unfortunately - although I recognized early and returned it a few weeks after getting it. At the time the software was bad across the board: on device and off. But the clincher for me was the price of the device was as much as you'd spend on an iPad and it had no backlight. I'd go back to considering ReMarkable on next generation if they've learned from gen 1. My use case was 50% book reading and 50% note/idea pad. I didn't feel it excelled at either of those. And while I don't enjoy reading on a tablet the writing experience on the iPad with a tactile screen cover is actually very good. I realize many would disagree there and I'd agree with that without the screen cover. I hope ReMarkable keeps going though. In the end it seems like they've left the platform open enough compared to the locked down ecosystems. I refuse to buy any Amazon branded eReader because of how limited in use they are without the Bezos ecosystem.

Re: The ReMarkable Tablet: A Review

#72
post #22

I've stopped using mine. It's gathering dust in a corner somewhere. The hardware is pretty decent, and the writing experience is good. The software, on the other hand, is not good. There have been a couple of updates since I bought it, but they've been few and far between. Everything about it is mediocre. The file manager, meh. The note taking app, meh. The sync, meh. Getting stuff on it automatically is all but impo…

I'll take it off your hands if you want. Email me at gmail.

Re: The ReMarkable Tablet: A Review

#75
post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For one, unlike most Android devices, you don't have to root the RM. It comes with SSH running and you have the root password. The company's Github [1] has most of the source code, from their Linux kernel to the software update daemon. Their CTO, Martin Sandsmark, is a long-time KDE developer. Unfortunately, xochitl (the device's main UI) isn't open. It's a major miss in their open approach, and frankly I don't get w…

And most importantly: their full toolchain is available. https://remarkable.engineering/

Did you try downloading it by chance? I get 404 on that toolchain link...

Re: The ReMarkable Tablet: A Review

#76
post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> * It's an open-source Linux-based device but not entirely. The actual UI application isn't open source. But as others have said here, it has pretty good hacking potential, and it's definitely more open than most commercial devices. The company's support of open-source was another reason for me to buy it. Can you tell us a bit more about this? Took a look at their website and searched around a bit, but don't find an…

An Android device would be able to use Ebookdroid, the best ebook reader (at least for pdf/djvu; its epub support is just okay) I've seen on any platform -- it just has so many features other programs are lacking -- like autocrop (gets rid of margins making the text part of book take up the full page), autosplit (automatically splits pages when people have scanned facing pages rather than each page separately), and a…

What android tablet with a pen would you recommend?

Re: The ReMarkable Tablet: A Review

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post #22

I've stopped using mine. It's gathering dust in a corner somewhere. The hardware is pretty decent, and the writing experience is good. The software, on the other hand, is not good. There have been a couple of updates since I bought it, but they've been few and far between. Everything about it is mediocre. The file manager, meh. The note taking app, meh. The sync, meh. Getting stuff on it automatically is all but impo…

Oh I love the iPad Pro. I'm betting my dollars on books coming on to web straight up—like websites—and there are startups working on this already with an "iPad first" approach to experience of reading books online. I am loving this churn! :-)

That sounds absolutely horrible. The whole point of a book is it's finality. I don't want to have to pull a book as a site down every time I want to read a book. It sounds like this model is focused on some sort of DRM approach that has little to no usefulness for people who want to read a book.

Re: The ReMarkable Tablet: A Review

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post #51

I'm a happy user of this tablet. I also created a [Go app]( https://github.com/juruen/rmapi ) to interact with the cloud API. I mainly use the tablet as a "virtual printer". Using the app I just mentioned above, I print directly to the device from my Mac. Yeah, this just saves me a couple of clicks and one drag and drop :) Here's a [tutorial]( https://github.com/juruen/rmapi/blob/master/docs/tutorial-pr... ) on how t…

That is super cool! I have been printing web pages to pdf to read later and then copy of them over, but this way more seamless.
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