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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 thekyle »

lighttower wrote: post #443
thekyle wrote: post #363

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I recently bought an Onyx Boox Android tablet with eInk screen for $340. It comes with a Wacom stylus included which feels kinda cheap (it's plastic) but works better than any other stylus I've owned before (and it has a proper eraser on back which reMarkable charges extra for). I think the main draw for the Onyx over a reMarkable is that you get access to full fat Android and all the apps in the Google Play store. A…

Did you get the Nova or Kontiki. I can't figure out the difference

I got the Nova 2.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B085NQV3NF/

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

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Post by kadoban »

mennis16 wrote: post #447
krick wrote: post #273

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You mean rsync via USB? Or can you rsync by WiFi without allowing it to send requests to their services?

Their support page does imply if you want to avoid cloud sync you should keep it offline, but perhaps that is just because it is the most brief/user friendly way to describe the situation. There definitely isn't an explicit option to turn off the cloud sync in the device settings, but I wouldn't be surprised if there are workarounds to this once you ssh in. You could also maybe block internet access to the device via…

The cloud sync requires an account, which the device works fine without. So just don't sign up.

I think I'm missing out on features I don't care about, like OCR and emailing docs to people, but it's well worth it.

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

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Post by kadoban »

brightball wrote: post #422
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…

Any way to sync it with Linux? It strikes me as odd that it’s that open, Linux based...but doesn’t have a Linux app.

You can ssh in either over wifi or via usb (it exposes a network device in usb).

Everything is just files in there. The notes formats are proprietary, but there's tools out there for them.

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

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Post by x87678r »

crooked-v wrote: post #420
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…

This reminds me that what I'd really like in an ebook reader is something that will sync a local library down from 'the cloud' in some automated way over wifi, without having to manually go in and update or import or whatever with books like everything else I've seen. ReMarkable seems like it wouldn't be practical for that for lack of enough storage for my Calibre library, though.

Kobo readers have overdrive so you can do this. Even better has Pocket reader so you can store web pages to read later.

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

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Post by kadoban »

officemonkey wrote: post #439
input_sh wrote: post #199

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> 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? You go to amazon.com/myk, switch to the Content tab, three dots next to the book, Download & transfer via USB. You then drag-and-drop them into Calibre with this add-on set up: https://github.com/apprenticeharper/DeDRM_tools There's some initial setup re…

Does the ReMarkable have an ePub reader? My existing ebook collection is mostly DRM-free ePubs.

On the rm1 you can install KOreader which works very well.

It has an integrated reader as well I think but I never tried, I heard it's not great.

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

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Post by striking »

h0l0gr4ph1c wrote: post #491
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…

You are say that the ReMarkable is open, but where is the GPLv2 code for the underlying Linux OS? As far as I can see there is nothing on the site that makes mention to it. That includes the Legal section which makes no mention of the GPL licensing.

https://github.com/reMarkable

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

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Post by kadoban »

fancy_pantser wrote: post #184
dheera wrote: post #106

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- 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 se…

The ReMarkable is already running an open source OS behind the hood. It's a bit complicated, the UI isn't open, but it's just running on linux, you can write and run your own programs.

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

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Post by kawera »

Polylactic_acid wrote: post #479
_AzMoo wrote: post #476

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Yep, you might as well just learn to read music the traditional way. It's very common for musicians to be reading the sheet music a long way ahead of the actual music being played, especially while playing fast and complex pieces. Having said that, an e-ink reader that could read visual cues would be awesome, but I feel it could be very frustrating unless it was incredibly smart. Maybe some kind of blink gestures mig…

I think the best UI would just be a page change foot pedal. Not particularly difficult to implement and very reliable.

That's what many big-name classical pianists use, a pedal hooked to an iPad.

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

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Post by jonahbenton »

bsimpson wrote: post #511
viraj_shah wrote: post #500

Is anyone else excited purely on the basis that this isn't a hardware product from Apple, Google, Samsung, Amazon or some other large company? I know little about it, but it looks great too.

Scares me too - wouldn't wanna drop hundreds of dollars on a thing with limited functionality (esp I/O) that might go out of business.

Definitely a bet. But as a user, and observer of the org, I would buy equity. Who knows what the future brings but they have been doing all the right things and...the gut likes them.

Cheers.

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Post by floatboth »

bsimpson wrote: post #511
viraj_shah wrote: post #500

Is anyone else excited purely on the basis that this isn't a hardware product from Apple, Google, Samsung, Amazon or some other large company? I know little about it, but it looks great too.

Scares me too - wouldn't wanna drop hundreds of dollars on a thing with limited functionality (esp I/O) that might go out of business.

You have root on it, you can always customize it (even fully replacing the OS) instead of using the vendor software.

But limited functionality is kinda the whole point. No distractions and all that.

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