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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 JackMorgan »

IanCal wrote: post #629
dkarbayev wrote: post #613

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Why iPad though? I’ve seen a specialized electronic music sheet (seemingly based on e-ink) in some videos, I guess pages are flipped using a pedal since I didn’t notice any visible interaction with it to do so, e.g. https://youtu.be/oB-gF2Ncphg

I think the question quickly becomes why not an iPad. They're easy and pretty cheap to get hold of, have good screens, lots of people can easily write new software for them and they're also a tablet . Many people may already have one and so using hardware they already have is much cheaper than buying new special hardware. Also, eink screens are nice to look at but so expensive for non-kindle sizes.

I've played so much live music with an IPad, but after the 4-5th time having it freeze up mid live performance I gave up on the dream. It's just not 100% reliable, and nothing like standing there like an idiot desperately trying to swipe to the next page to make your realize how great paper is

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

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Post by konradb »

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.

Yes - this is primarily how I use mine. It doesn't have close to the polish of something like iBooks unfortunately, but it works.

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

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Post by eequah9L »

asdff wrote: post #588
capableweb wrote: post #197

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Same here last time ReMarkable came up. Saw the marketing page and really liked the hardware and expected it to be locked down, so moved on to reading the comments. Bunch of comments describing how it's open, runs linux and you can basically just ssh into it and run stuff. Made a pre-order right there and then and now waiting for it. I think we're simply such a small user-base that they don't think to include it on t…

I really think they should push this, because if you are in the market for an e ink notebook like this, you are probably a niche customer to begin with. Everyone else and their mother draws on an iPad. This is nerd hardware, and they really should lean into it with the marketing.

There are various types of nerds, and an "I like paper" nerd seems mostly orthogonal to an "I like hackability" nerd. I mean, _I_ am the right type of nerd to appreciate the hackability, and yet I only use mine to scribble notes and read papers.

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

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Post by BigJ1211 »

justinclift wrote: post #607
filmgirlcw wrote: post #456

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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 does according to the website: https://remarkable.com/#Reading_on_reMarkable

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

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Post by CandyFace »

jberryman wrote: post #472
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…

I thought I would like using an ereader to read PDFs but the touch screen (on this kobo) actually really bothered me; I always felt like I had to be very careful where I put my fingers and was always accidentally turning pages. Do you find that bothers you, or can you just hold it like a notebook?

I haven't experienced such issues and I've had mine for years. On the first remarkable model you either use the physical buttons to turn page or use the somewhat recent swiping feature. Touching the surface while reading doesn't do anything, you have to explicitly swipe left or right to turn a page. Moving your finger or hand doesn't turn a page either, so I'd say you're pretty safe in that regard.

The reading experience on the remarkable is however not as feature rich as eink tablets that label themselves as 'ebook readers' but otherwise I think it's fine. I primarily use mine to draw and write notes, which it does very well but I also read.

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Post by V-2 »

How well does text conversion work for joined handwriting? All the examples I've seen appear to use carefully segmented handwriting, which is a bit of a red flag to me.

Bonus points if someone could answer this for languages other than English (I'm thinking of diacritics)...

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

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Post by codeofficer »

Zero_Negative wrote: post #597
yayr wrote: post #376

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Absolutely love that toy, unfortunately they stopped producing DLCs for it some time ago to do something else... I wonder what that is.

They are working on RockSmith 2, you don't know this from me.

I remember a couple years ago getting Rocksmith for my ps4 and absolutely loving it. The controller mappings were a little unnatural in places but I did reasonably well with reading their notation/tab. Fast forward to when I tried to pick it up again a few weeks ago ... I can't read their notation/tab for the life of me. It's so confusing. Need to rewire my brain somehow.

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Post by productionx »

solarkraft wrote: post #461
krick wrote: post #191

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It's funny how your comment immediately makes me want to buy it, because the description on the site with all these silly photos and such for some reason got me thinking like "looks kinda nice, but since it's obviously something very Apple-like, it will be as restrictive as it gets, I won't be able to use it without some obligatory shitty web-account and I probably even won't be able to read *.cbz comics on it, so...…

> So I've got a feeling all these marketing people do advertising wrong somehow. I have a feeling the HN crowd is a rather unusual one :) High-quality normal user experience and a good power -user experience luckily aren't mutually exclusive at all (just appear together much too rarely).

`I have a feeling the HN crowd is a rather unusual one :)` unusual or unorthodox?

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

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Post by occamschainsaw »

maxioatic wrote: post #572
getpolarized wrote: post #514

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Let me know what you think about Polar: https://getpolarized.io/ We launched about a year ago and are REALLY close to a 2.0 release.

I'm a huge Polar fan! I'm considering buying an iPad just for using Polar, but I was wondering about the ReMarkable as well, since I like e-ink better for reading. Do you have any recommendations for a tablet to use with Polar?

What app do you use for Polar? I used Polar for a bit on my Mac but gave up because I do most of my reading on an iPad. Would give it another shot if I could get Polar running on iPad.

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

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Post by dotancohen »

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…

> 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.

I use a Barnes & Noble e-ink Nook (Kindle competitor) to run AnkiDroid [1][2]. I have tried to use some note-taking Android apps on the device, but they all had horrible feedback due to the very slow CPU and very limited memory of the device.

Is it possible to run either an Android app (AnkiDroid) or a Qt/Python Linux application (Anki) on the ReMarkable 2? If so, I would happily buy such a device.

[1] https://apps.ankiweb.net/ [2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ichi2.anki

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