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A wonderful product ruined by a proprietary cloud. The problem with the latter was very promptly proven by the unilateral imposition of a subscription. The product is useless without its cloud.
I am one of the original kickstarter backers and got mine at a very favorable price compared to what they are selling it for now. As a original kickstarter backer they also provided me with a free tier for their subscription service so I am not paying anything extra to have full functionality, this is very important to me because I am not very excited of subscription based software features - remarkable please take n…
They just dont seem to care. Other wise we would have hundreds in the business.
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Worth noting they actually announced changes to subscription that basically cancels the whole thing. Subscription still exists, it's cheaper, but basic functions that we (clients) were told comes with device itself are again not tied to subscription. That move of theirs was insane, this change must be a direct reflections of clients correctly voting with their wallets.
I bought a Remarkable 2 just before they imposed subscriptions. It’s grandfathered into the old plan (free unlimited storage). Anyone looking to buy it with case, stylus, extra nibs, etc please contact me in my profile email address. Love it but don’t use it.
My dream machine is an e-ink tablet that runs both KOReader as well as Zotero. Make that and I’ll buy it in a heartbeat. The perfect combo for a reader/academic.
A wonderful product ruined by a proprietary cloud. The problem with the latter was very promptly proven by the unilateral imposition of a subscription. The product is useless without its cloud.
I have an Onyx Boox e-ink writing device. While it also has a cloud service, it seems to be less necessary since it is just Android so you can just install whatever you need on it. I use Syncthing for this and it works fine.
From the video it looked like the Boox had a bad delay. Could appear worse because of the backlight which increases distance from pen to screen.
The Supernote and Remarkable also had visible delay that would annoy me, but the larger delay of the Boox looked like a deal breaker to me.
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My Kobo has an adjustable backlight that works great.
Are you sure it’s a backlight? I’m looking at my Libra 2 and can’t tell whether the light’s in front or in back.
Some things I’ve used it for, so far:
- To write handwritten.blog.
- As a notebook. Nothing much to mention here. Being able to pick a page template (plain/dotted/lined/squared) is nice.
- Reading PDFs. Kindle won’t quite cut it, even with k2pdfopt – the screen size makes a difference. Plus, you can annotate them!
- Reading code. `npx repo-to-pdf some-repo` and then proceed as above. Great for getting oneself into a full-focus mode.
- Live-sketching at conference calls. I just share the reMarkable screen to my Mac and then share the companion app’s window on Zoom. Tried it out twice during internal brown-bags, worked very nice.
- As an actual toy. Getting grandma’s picture onto an e-ink screen and being able to draw a moustache lights up a big smile on my 8yo niece’s face.
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*Frontlight. Backlight is not possible in eink readers, right?
My Kobo has an adjustable backlight that works great.
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012...
Eink due to its USP and fundamental characteristics only reflects light and does not transmit (i.e., is not transparent. Transparency is needed for back lighting).
If you can get your own root certificate on this thing you can see how its cloud transfer works and theoretically redirect it to your own box, but it would most likely be a lot of work.
Is there a reason this is trending, I can't see any changes recently? I played with the RM1 at work and quite liked it, but the locked down experience is a deal breaker. I want to be able to work with Obsidian (Onyx Boox might do this).