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Re: The reMarkable as a notebook and eBook reader

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Post by elzbardico »

deepstack wrote: post #4

often people want more feature, thinking more is better. iPad has color it is better right? Personally I would pay more to have e-ink. Looking at it is like looking at paper! It is easier on the eyes, less drain on the battery. And most stuff software development wise, b&w is good enough.

I personally find an iPad and a apple pencil either with Notability or the default Notes application the nirvana for me. Looking at paper is overrated, IMHO, a modern retina display with at least 69hz refresh rate shouldn't objectively cause any discomfort, unless you're using it under really adverse situations, like under direct sunlight.

Re: The reMarkable as a notebook and eBook reader

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Post by extreme_orang »

extreme_orang wrote: post #98

Having tried a number of notebook type devices I'll just add that the Remarkable (v2) is excellent. It is not a computer, not an iPad, just an excellent digital notepad and eReader. Price, yeah its high but you get what you pay for and this is something I do find genuinely useful for reading and taking notes. Is it perfect? Far from it. There are lots of silly UI decisions that make no sense (e.g. limited pen size) a…

ps. I also own a Boox Note Air, and the remarkable quite simply blows it away. When I bought the Boox I loved it, but after getting the Remarkable there really is no competition. I do like the Boox for its novelty value, running weird things on an e-ink display, but I don't use it for notes or reading anymore.

Re: The reMarkable as a notebook and eBook reader

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Post by KennyBlanken »

captainmuon wrote: post #66

I have one, and I find the writing part nearly perfect. But there are a couple of downsides mentioned in the article that mean I barely use it: - Searching and organisation is really difficult. I wish everything would be OCRed transparently and you could instantly search for it (while keeping the original graphics) - It's unfortunate that the OCR runs on their cloud. It would be really perfect if it was a web app tha…

Wanting your documents and writings to not be fully accessible to CCP intelligence services....is not exactly "heightened security requirements" to me.

This device is basically completely un-trustable.

Leaking information related to financial stuff, research, invention, product design, or legal/government work. For a publicly traded company any manner of documents / notes on a device like this could spell trouble.

Plus, if they're able to identify something you don't want others to know, they have leverage on you.

Re: The reMarkable as a notebook and eBook reader

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Post by KennyBlanken »

di4na wrote: post #6
deepstack wrote: post #4

often people want more feature, thinking more is better. iPad has color it is better right? Personally I would pay more to have e-ink. Looking at it is like looking at paper! It is easier on the eyes, less drain on the battery. And most stuff software development wise, b&w is good enough.

I just want to point out that there are good e-ink color display now! It is just that none of the integrators made a product/device using it yet really. There is a whole array of "notebook like" e-ink devices being created and released, but they mostly exist in, and target, the chinese and japanese market. Not the Western one. Remarkable is one of the exception and Kobo recently released one. Hopefully we will see mo…

Color e-ink displays are not "good." The refresh rate is even more atrocious than regular e-ink.

Re: The reMarkable as a notebook and eBook reader

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Post by dx034 »

teekert wrote: post #52
KennyBlanken wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> You can go into settings and enable ssh Until they disable it via an update because their cloud offering isn't making them enough money?

I would be genuinely curious to know how many people do ssh based tricks instead of paying for a subscription. Is it really worth pushing away your initial tech-savvy crowd for those couple of people that are not annoyed enough to leave?

Often these decisions are much less evil. Some update in the future is likely to require work on the SSH functionality to keep it working and if not enough people use it, they might decide to kill that feature. Happened often enough that a "simplification" of the tech stack or refactoring ended up killing features that were valued by many, but didn't rank high enough in usage stats.

Re: The reMarkable as a notebook and eBook reader

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Post by KennyBlanken »

pjerem wrote: post #75
akiselev wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just discovered earlier today that my reMarkable 2 screen is broken after sitting on a shelf unused for a month or two. Suffice it say it was the worst part of my day and I even had flashes of conspiracy theory (now, really? right after a 1 year warranty expires?) especially since I don't remember touching it or placing anything on it in a long while even though I know I must have tossed something heavy on it for t…

> and I even had flashes of conspiracy theory (now, really? right after a 1 year warranty expires? Not sure it could change anything to you but reMarkable is a EU company where the minimum legal warranty is of two years. Which implies : - that even if they were evil (which I'm sure they aren't), they wouldn't intentionally produce devices that last less than two years. - that it's not impossible that you could get a…

https://support.remarkable.com/hc/en-us/articles/36000677985...

They repeatedly state that the terms and conditions of their services are Hong Kong jurisdiction.

They have no "terms" for sales like refunds, unless you buy Connect. They literally say "local laws and regulations MAY apply" and tell you to "check your local laws" to figure out what return policy applies. What...

Re: The reMarkable as a notebook and eBook reader

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Post by salamandersauce »

martin_a wrote: post #2

> They are moving towards a subscription model. This is the biggest minus point for me. I want devices that I own, that I can use like I want to. I don't want to be caught in another cloud and pay monthly for something I don't want to use. Currently I'm looking into getting a device from Onyx, because those support the Android App Stores, so I could set it up with Notion or my Nextcloud probably. Remarkable seems to…

The hardware isn't better on the Remarkable. It's a slower weaker chipset than what's used on any of the Oynx devices and the screen in the RM2 is literally the same part as what is in the Oynx Note Air. Both use Wacom EMR for writing so you can use the same pens and nibs on both.

Remarkable has a plastic layer to improve writing feel and optimized software to get pen latency down. The Oynx Note Air 2 supposedly also has improved writing feel but I'm not sure how it compares.

Re: The reMarkable as a notebook and eBook reader

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Post by vcmiraldo »

sasvari wrote: post #89
vcmiraldo wrote: post #68

I bought one, then returned it. For the price they're selling it at, the following points were a deal breaker for me: 1. Custom file system: this means I can ssh into it, but I can't rsync my bibliography into it, since it won't display regular pdf files whose name is not hashed and registered in some sort of index. Moreover, the lack of a Linux client meant it was very hard to put my pdfs on it, or extract my notes…

> 1. Custom file system: this means I can ssh into it, but I can't rsync my bibliography into it, since it won't display regular pdf files whose name is not hashed and registered in some sort of index. Moreover, the lack of a Linux client meant it was very hard to put my pdfs on it, or extract my notes from it. FWIW, rmfuse [0] allows you to mount the reMarkable cloud and you have easy access to sync with real filena…

Interesting, thanks, I didn't know this one!

I did find a few similar projects back when I had the reMarkable, but none quite worked well for me. I'm sure this will help some other people out there though! :)

Re: The reMarkable as a notebook and eBook reader

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Post by vcmiraldo »

raffraffraff wrote: post #92
vcmiraldo wrote: post #68

I bought one, then returned it. For the price they're selling it at, the following points were a deal breaker for me: 1. Custom file system: this means I can ssh into it, but I can't rsync my bibliography into it, since it won't display regular pdf files whose name is not hashed and registered in some sort of index. Moreover, the lack of a Linux client meant it was very hard to put my pdfs on it, or extract my notes…

1. I'm with you here. I'd like to be able to just copy files directly on/off 2. Also left handed. I just turn off the menu when I'm drawing/writing, so the close button and everything else is fine until I need it. However, what annoys me is that the pen's mark on the screen is about 0.2mm off from the tip of the contract point, to account for the angle of the pen and the thickness of the screen glass. While it's a su…

> 2. Also left handed. I just turn off the menu when I'm drawing/writing [...]

I know, but I often forgot to turn off the menu when annotating a pdf, and would close the pdf as soon as I touched the screen. After a few dozen repetitions it got quite annoying!

> [...] However, what annoys me is that the pen's mark on the screen is about 0.2mm off from the tip of the contract point, to account for the angle of the pen and the thickness of the screen glass. While it's a subtle problem, it is noticeable.

Interesting! I don't think I noticed that

> 3. I don't think this is a cost issue, it's battery life. I'm happy with their choice, and you certainly can't please everybody

You can always turn the light on or off, preserving the battery life. I found that reading something on a rainy day could be challenging depending on where I sat on the house. For a 500 euro device, I thought it was a bit of a shame.

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