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* it is basically an infinite shelf of notebooks that I can keep organized however I want
* it is great for reading journal articles at full size
There is a lot I wish it did, but it does work well for these!
Have had a Remarkable 2 for a couple years now. My general impressions have been consistently favorable but the use case is limited. I’m in academia, so it excels specifically because: * it is basically an infinite shelf of notebooks that I can keep organized however I want * it is great for reading journal articles at full size There is a lot I wish it did, but it does work well for these!
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I took for granted that such expensive device would render at least epubs and PDFs flawlessly.
It does render epubs and PDFs flawlessly indeed and the reading experience is great. I don't know what OP is talking about. Bonus: reading black and white comics on a remarkable feels even better than on paper.
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I took for granted that such expensive device would render at least epubs and PDFs flawlessly.
It does render epubs and PDFs flawlessly indeed and the reading experience is great. I don't know what OP is talking about. Bonus: reading black and white comics on a remarkable feels even better than on paper.
Perhaps the epub experience has improved - but I've mostly used it with White Wolf rpg pdfs (granted, they are terrible - almost unreadable even in print) as well as other rpg books - typically large format, two columns - and its awful on the rm2.
They have an intentionally slow development cycle, which stays very true to Remarklable's interpretation on how to use the device.
I find that I align perfectly with the workflow imposed by the device (note-taking, PDF Markup, casual reading, specifically of magazines / PDFs).
I've tried other "kitchen-sink" android eInk devices (full-colour, etc) - and hated them for their confused approach.
However, the biggest reason to avoid remarkable are their anti-customer / flagrant disrespect for customer rights.
The lower-half of my device's screen began to malfunction, and eventually stopped working altogether. The EU has very clear laws on this situation: within the first year of purchase, the device must be replaced.
Remarkable initially refused to replace the device, eventually capitulated but sent a pen instead of the device, and then refused, once again, to replace the device. Bear in mind that I had sent my device to them.
Contact via the European Consumer Centres Network was ignored. I reached out politely to the CEO via email to ask for his attention to the situation. No reply.
Finally, when I initiated legal action against them, they proposed to replace the device with a "refurbished" device, and only when my lawyers insisted did I receive a new replacement device.
The craziest part is that I had purchased 6 devices for our team.
It's great to read some A4 pdfs even though one need to zoom when reading academic papers due to the small font used.
The e-ink screen is great to read under the sun but it really lacks some backlight to use it during evenings. I can read some paper books but not use the Remarkable unless I can have a direct light on it, but then there's a bit of shining.
- On-device OCR. I don't feel comfortable using it for anything sensitive as long as everything gets sent to the cloud. Come on, mobile processors get more powerful each year and AI has improved in leaps and bounds since the release of the Remarkable 2.
- Allow OCR without converting the document. You can either have a page as an image, or convert it to text. Why can't you OCR your text, keep it as an image, and have the letters stored behind the handwriting? PDF supports that without problems.
- Use handwriting in the UI. This is also big. Why do I have to use a crappy on-screen keyboard? I want to write a search term with the pen and then find the pages with the original highlighting selected.
Some nice to haves would be:
- Higher resolution. The e-Ink makes it look very crisp, but the resolution is actually quite low, and I cannot write as small as I write on paper.
- A more innovative UI. It feels a lot like Windows CE clicking on things with the pen. You could be scribbling circles to select pages, drawing crosses to activate checkboxes, and arrows to move things.
Have had a Remarkable 2 for a couple years now. My general impressions have been consistently favorable but the use case is limited. I’m in academia, so it excels specifically because: * it is basically an infinite shelf of notebooks that I can keep organized however I want * it is great for reading journal articles at full size There is a lot I wish it did, but it does work well for these!
How do you manage the fairly limited storage space? I’m constantly running out.
With Supernote I can read without the eye strain, and I can write as if I was using pen on paper. These devices do not try to do everything a tablet does, but reading on an eInk screen is much more pleasant to my eyes -- and so is the writing experience.