I'm wandering whether the device is suitable for geometry style drawings? Just the type from the high school. Lines, circles and so on. Does someone has such an experience with this device?
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
#632Earlier quoted context omitted.
Right, because the Kindle refreshes when you turn the page or use the menus. That would be a refresh every 30 seconds or so while you are using it. If you are using it as a primary display on a phone showing dynamic content, you are going to be refreshing it as quickly as you can the entire time you are using it. I think modern low end panels can maintain about 7 fps or a refresh every 0.15 seconds. That's a two orde…
I have never seen or heard of an epaper display wearing out but I don't know of anyone who has tested. I'm tempted to grab one of my spare screens and just hook it up to an arduino to constantly refresh it.
I hacked an old Kindle DX to run a screensaver, swaps out a full screen PNG about once every 30 seconds, been going for several years without a hitch.
Re: ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper
#633I almost impulse per-ordered the RM2 when I first read about the SD card mod here on HN. I decided to wait after hearing about the limitations as a reader and the slow software development. If you're considering the RM2 for anything other than a sketch/note pad, I highly encourage you to watch this fantastic review from My Deep Guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iIAYMsugzM Full review: https://www.youtube.com/pl…
> It seems obvious to me that management doesn't understand the target audience for the device > If you're considering the RM2 for anything other than a sketch/note pad It is marketed as a sketch/note pad and that's about it. The e-reader feature is like the youtube functionality on a Switch. It's there because "lolwhynot" and little more. I have one and I really love mine. But all I wanted was a digital notebook. If…
Whatever the Remarkable is marketed as, it's an e-reader.
Pretty much by definition people buying e-readers are buying them to read with.
Clearly the Surface/iPad are not comparable to e-screens for that specific purpose and the obvious UX (usability) fail in the Remarkable in that regard means there is still a significant market gap for people who want an e-reader which bridges those two worlds, particularly (for me and many others) reading technical manuals.
Re: ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper
#634Why do I have tears in my eyes because of a technology ad? I have not felt this emotional about a technology product since Steve Jobs. I think even more. That was an amazing ad (video on their home page).
I have loved and used paper and pen as a primary tool for thinking since I was young. However, typing is much faster, and now that is my tool - the keyboard. Still, this clearly has its place.
My main interest now is whether it can be 'rooted' and a native Linux OS used on it, and/or whether it can be used with end-to-end encryption compatible self-cloud services like Nextcloud.
To me, open hardware and software is a necessary way forward for humanity.
Edit: I see it's very hackable indeed, from comments above, e.g.: http://www.davisr.me/projects/parabola-rm/
Re: ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper
#635Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, I pre-ordered one because a friend has an rM1 and used a bunch of hacks and that was what made me interested. At the time (~18 months ago), I was uninterested in paying the money for one, but when the rM2 came out at pre-order for the lower price (the reMarkable 1 is now $100 less than the rM2) and with better battery/faster processor/USB-C, I pre-ordered. I'm in the second batch and because of delays, I won't…
> primarily an e-reader It has no capability to be used as an e-reader? eg ePub's, etc. Ouch. That outright kills the idea of this for me. :(
It can read epub without DRM: https://support.remarkable.com/hc/en-us/articles/36000676163...
Re: ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper
#636Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Things as simple as font resizing are 30x slower than on a Kindle Wow, thanks, I was very interested in this for marking up documents + notes. I guess I could still use my kindle for most of my reading anyway, but the video gave me the impression the RM2 was very fluid and fast. If I'm understanding correctly, the screen's responsiveness to input is great, but the UI's responsiveness is not?
I've been using the RM1 for a few months. The screen and UI responsiveness are both fine. What is astonishingly slow is their ereader implementation. Basically, the model is something like this: • The ReMarkable is primarily like a sheet of paper you can write on (or a paper notepad). • This "sheet of paper" can also have a background template (like dots, a grid, or an arbitrary image), different for every page. (You…
I'm not quite sure what you mean by the PDFs and EPUBs being rasterized - that's always happening with anything that is displayed on a screen. Do you mean that it is converted to a raster format and stored like that? (outside of a frame buffer that is)
Re: ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper
#637I 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.
The (L)GPL license only requires you to offer source code to the customers (the people that get a copy of the binaries).
The (L)GPLv2 requires offering physical copies of the source, so the required information is in a printed notice in the box (on the first tablet).
(L)GPLv3, which e. g. Qt is under, allows for only distributing the source digitally.
The full list of licenses for all pieces of software are on the device as well, and the SSH information is available as a part of the license page (explaining how the (L)GPLv3 requires companies to give access to the devices/anti-tivoization).
The (L)GPL requirement seems to be also fulfilled with https://remarkable.engineering/deploy/copyleft_sources/ apparently (the github repos are probably just more convenient for them).
Re: ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper
#638I 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…
Reminds me of this digital typewriter project using a e-ink display: https://alternativebit.fr/posts/ultimate-writer The problem with this project was the lack of a affordable e-ink display with a decent refresh rate. Would love to see a real terminal on the ReMarkable. A terminal + vim + usb keyboard would be the perfect distaction-free writing tool.
> Would love to see a real terminal on the ReMarkable. A terminal + vim + usb keyboard would be the perfect distaction-free writing tool.
someone seems to have ported a terminal already https://github.com/dixonary/fingerterm-reMarkable
Re: ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper
#639I've been interested in eink displays and eink readers for a long time. Kindle owner since version 1. But... Is the ReMarkable really worth $500 ($400 + the $100 pencil which seems like a requirement)? For that amount you're getting a low end iPad which has greatly wider use cases. I understand that for the "paper on pencil" feel an iPad is no where near... but then again you can also just write using real paper and…
You should see the crazy Psion devices my dad used to spend £500 on in the 90s. There's a market
Re: ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper
#640Earlier quoted context omitted.
> primarily an e-reader It has no capability to be used as an e-reader? eg ePub's, etc. Ouch. That outright kills the idea of this for me. :(
It can read epub without DRM: https://support.remarkable.com/hc/en-us/articles/36000676163...
That's, that's workable. :)