I have been trying to figure out a better workflow for grabbing websites or PDFs, marking them up, and storing them as notes, either by themselves or in something like Craft or Obsidian to reference later. I'm not sure this really moves the needle as I can't imagine moving stuff to the Kindle and then back again will be frictionless.
Amazon’s Kindle Scribe is an E Ink tablet for reading and writing
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
It never made any sense to have a huge library locked to a vendor. And there are ways to convert your library so you don't have to make the same mistake twice.
It's ridiculously absurdly convenient. Someone recommends a book to me or I see one mentioned, I quickly Amazon it, one click to send a sample to my Kindle. Amazon has everything, I can't remember when I last couldn't get something there. When I finish a book, I always have a bunch of samples, and Amazon gives you a decent portion of the book, so they're actually useful. If I like a sample, it's two or three taps to…
This is the first time I’ve seen ‘Amazon’ verbed. Amazon marketing execs are now experiencing an unexplained sensation of joy. :-)
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unless you pirate, for most publishers, there's no way to buy books without DRM. If you buy books for Kobo, you are locked on Kobo. Also, last time I tried, Kobo's phone app was just not good. There was no vertical scroll like Kindle, the animations were not smooth. The online store is also a bit weirder for me to navigate - but that might be just me. And last, if it was not bought at their online store, it won't hav…
There are trivial ways to strip the DRM though. And I always do that regardless if the DRM is native for my device. If that wasn't an option I'd never buy a single ebook.
But you can strip Amazon's DRM too, so I don't see why the two platforms aren't equivalent.
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
It never made any sense to have a huge library locked to a vendor. And there are ways to convert your library so you don't have to make the same mistake twice.
It's ridiculously absurdly convenient. Someone recommends a book to me or I see one mentioned, I quickly Amazon it, one click to send a sample to my Kindle. Amazon has everything, I can't remember when I last couldn't get something there. When I finish a book, I always have a bunch of samples, and Amazon gives you a decent portion of the book, so they're actually useful. If I like a sample, it's two or three taps to…
> It's ridiculously absurdly convenient.
Exactly. While de-drm-ing things for backup is nice (although I could just torrent it anyway if that's the case), some people often forget why we use kindle and the it's 'ecosystem'. Great selection on many languages, good device, good apps for mac/windows/android/iphone/ipad, extremely convenient, constant sales on books, etc...
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#45This made it occur to me that a tablet that mimics the form of electric typewriters—a fixed-width LCD screen, a bit akin to those on simple calculators, with the full page above it, and text from the LCD appended to the "page" when you move to the next line—might actually be awesome for writing, coupled with an external keyboard. Potentially-very-low input latency while typing, and no page-flickering except when changing lines. You could even scroll back to edit.
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#46This made it occur to me that a tablet that mimics the form of electric typewriters—a fixed-width LCD screen, a bit akin to those on simple calculators, with the full page above it, and text from the LCD appended to the "page" when you move to the next line—might actually be awesome for writing, coupled with an external keyboard. Potentially-very-low input latency while typing, and no page-flickering except when chan…
Could I interest you by chance in an Alphasmart word processor?
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#47Boox e-ink tabs do the same thing, but they're Android underneath so it's not locked down to Amazon and dependent on partnerships with Microsoft to add an export button.
I have a Boox that I'm quite happy with. It's quite pleasant to write on, and the battery lasts a considerable amount of time. The calibration seems to sometimes go off slightly, but I'm still not sure if that is the device's issue, the pen, or myself.
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#48I was really hoping for a Kindle with USB-C and page turning buttons; inexplicably this still does not exist.
The Oasis, with page-turn buttons, hasn't been refreshed since mid-2019; the latest Paperwhite, with USB-C port, was released two years later. I expect the next Oasis will have USB-C.
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#49For me all the drawing features etc. are kinda useless if it becomes a pain to export them to other things.
The Amazon blurb around this
> Get access to your notebooks through the Kindle app sync feature (coming early 2023).
Suggests some kindle app will be required, I just hope you can do stuff like export to images/svgs or PDF
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#50I will wait for 2-3rd generation before buying it. I bought kindle early at $400 before it became a brick and I can just use my tablet/phone anyways. Remarkable has failed me twice. I am on fence with e Ink tablets. Perhaps it’s not for me.
Both the Remarkable and the Scribe are only 10" devices. If you are going to read and markup PDFs, a 13" screen makes so much more sense because it's very close to letter/A4 size.
Sony Digital Paper was such a product but very few outside of Academia and some Japanese business customers bought it.