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They are cheaper with better screens and more powerful processors, too.
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Are none of the other eBook readers "hackable", and/or running a mostly-plain-vanilla Linux distribution?
Well the reMarkable isn't an eBook reader. That is something it can do, but it's more aimed at note taking. You also have root access out of box, which is not something that eBook readers give you.
Unless you limit yourself to mainstream Western eReaders, it's not really the case anymore.
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I’ve been happy with my Boox Nova 2, which is smaller and more portable. It’s an Android tablet so you can enable developer options.
The Boox devices are pretty nice. The Note Air is a bit larger and close to the reMarkable 2 in form factor.
Was a good decision.
What really matters is not how "open" the device is, but the open-ness of its data format, which is where rM epically fails. It doesn't matter if a gadget is hackable if it locks you into a proprietary file format and doesn't have good interoperability. Exporting PDFs just doesn't cut it; the point of keeping your notes digital is being able to (a) maintain them as living documents and (b) use them on hardware of you…
"proprietary device using open file format" would make me be stuck with whatever format they decided to use, and stuck with the same reader/writer. This is less helpful to me than being able to change everything in the device.
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They are pretty hacker firendly, but it's always good to show that this is something that people like
Just saying on the website or somewhere else officially that being able to ssh in is a feature and not something they just left there and may remove later would make the device a lot more attractive.
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Opt-out analytics is not the only way to do research on your own products or users. Not by a lot. And it being popular doesn't justify it, it's just an invasion of privacy that many people put up with (or are unaware of).
I don't agree it's a 0 or 1 decision, you can gather analytics in a privacy-preserving way, see e.g. plausible.io [1] or similar implementations that track users without collecting personal data. [1] https://plausible.io/self-hosted-web-analytics
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I have very bad handwriting, especially when not taking care to write carefully, which when making notes, I don't. Here is an example on how it parses my terrible handwriting: https://websites.instantwebsite.app/wPhkwSStQvStUrzPC9jW5Kw/... (no, I'm not a doctor) According to the licenses on the device, the handwriting is "partially powered by MyScript" which seems to be this service: https://www.myscript.com/
I had band handwriting and spent some time with Write Now! which is a book teaching the Getty-Dubay italics method to adults. It helped quite a bit, but I’ve been meaning to revisit it and I think it would be great to pull PDFs into something like ReMarkable for practice. https://handwritingsuccess.com/ Edit: looks like they have released an iPad app since I last tried it! I’ll also add that when I first did it I fou…
Jokes aside, practice PDFs for improving my handwriting does sound interesting, thank you for taking the time to share it.
What really matters is not how "open" the device is, but the open-ness of its data format, which is where rM epically fails. It doesn't matter if a gadget is hackable if it locks you into a proprietary file format and doesn't have good interoperability. Exporting PDFs just doesn't cut it; the point of keeping your notes digital is being able to (a) maintain them as living documents and (b) use them on hardware of you…
is there anyway to directly transfer files to the tablet without using their cloud services?
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Majority of consumer facing products collect usage analytics, otherwise they don’t know how to improve the product.
I usually use two squares of toilet paper per wipe. Occasionally I’ll use three, sometimes accidentally and sometimes because I need three. Whenever I use three I wonder to myself how that will appear when the numbers are crunched. Then I remember there’s no analytics for my toilet paper.
> Then I remember there’s no analytics for my toilet paper.