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ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper

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Re: ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper

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Post by KaiserPro »

truth_seeker wrote: post #2

Any reason why should i buy it instead of iPad Pro 2020 or recently announced Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 plus ?

> iPad Pro 2020

against that? no thats about $1100, pencil, folio and ipad. The remarkable is a bargain compared to that. Granted the iPad can do a lot more.

Where it struggles is against an ipad air/mini and apple pencil. Its roughly the same price point, but the ipad does a lot more. Goodnotes is a very capable journalling tool. On the plus side you get the full iOS universe of apps and media.

On the downside the battery life is nowhere near as good, and the screen isn't optimised for text like the remarkable is.

I have no idea about the galaxy tab. I'm weary of android tablets as they are a mixed bag. Some are awesome, some are brilliant for the price, and some are just trash.

Re: ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper

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Post by eddiecalzone »

roel_v wrote: post #16

How good is a ReMarkable as an ebook reader? I don't care that much about the writing, but having a large size ebook reader that can display A4 pdfs in acceptable quality would be a game changer for me...

It sounds pretty basic from what other commenters are saying, but you can install koreader, which is outstanding (and also supports PDF, DjVu, XPS, CBZ, FB2, PDB, TXT, HTML, RTF, CHM, EPUB, DOC, MOBI):

https://github.com/koreader/koreader

Re: ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper

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Post by fancy_pantser »

dheera wrote: post #106
jbeard4 wrote: post #13

I have been very happy with my ReMarkable 1, and have ordered the ReMarkable 2.0. Hacker News might be interested in the active development community around the device: https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable The device is open. It's just an embedded linux device. You can ssh into it, and run arbitrary code. The SDK is based on Qt. You can also connect a keyboard to it over a USB-on-the-go port. I have been…

- What is the latest word (as of 2020) on reading Kindle books on the ReMarkable? Is there a tool that makes it easy to buy Kindle books and strip them of their DRM? - Is the ReMarkable capable of running an open source OS behind the hood? Is it a hacker-friendly piece of hardware in case ReMarkable runs out of business in the future? I was thinking about getting the ReMarkable 2 if only because my Kindle's display i…

> Is there a tool that makes it easy to buy Kindle books and strip them of their DRM

Yes, the most common one is Calibre, which is also great for converting formats and bulk operations. There is a "DeDRM Plugin" for it on GitHub that does what you're asking.

> Is the ReMarkable capable of running an open source OS behind the hood?

Yes, and there has been some success with this including Parabola-rM. However, there seems to be no open driver for the radio chipset (so no WiFi!).

Re: ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper

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Post by vorpalhex »

crystaln wrote: post #158
ankit70 wrote: post #147

It happens every single time. I like a product and want to order and it doesn't get shipped to India. Frustrating!

Use a freight forwarder?

A lot of companies won't ship to known freight forwarders because it triggers fraud measures (because freight forwarders are often used for cc fraud schemes).

Re: ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper

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Post by ghshephard »

eddiecalzone wrote: post #171
braythwayt wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just to confirm, when you say, "better than anything else out there," that includes the latest generation of iPad Pro with Apple Pencil 2, correct?

Of course not. That wouldn't be an apple-to-apple comparison.

In what way? I find the lag on the iPad to be annoying enough that I've never bothered with it. I've never found any of the E-Ink devices to come close enough to paper to make me consider giving up paper notebooks - Though it's been about 3 years since I last checked them out.

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Post by jonahbenton »

meigetsu wrote: post #91
jonahbenton wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

PDFs work fine. I converted many Kindle books to PDF and sent them to the remarkable via their cloud API. I don't do it much but writing notes on PDF pages works fine.

How do you convert kindle books into PDFs?

Wiring together the work done in the Calibre project.

http://www.geoffstratton.com/remove-drm-amazon-kindle-books

Start by downloading the owned book from Amazon, targeting one of the compatible devices. I have a bunch of old kindles still registered under my account that I use for this, for which I have the serial #. Then just follow instructions.

All the steps described as using the UI can be done with some digging from the command line.

Shipping a PDF up to the remarkable cloud also takes little digging and wiring, but it works totally reliably.

Re: ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper

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Post by braythwayt »

smusamashah wrote: post #170
braythwayt wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just to confirm, when you say, "better than anything else out there," that includes the latest generation of iPad Pro with Apple Pencil 2, correct?

Is iPad Pro an e-ink device?

The iPad Pro is not an e-Ink device, however since the OP was speaking of it being better than anything else out there _including other eink devices_, I wanted to confirm that "anything else" refers to devices like the current generation of iPad Pro.
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