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ReMarkable’s redesigned e-paper tablet is more powerful and more papery
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Re: ReMarkable’s redesigned e-paper tablet is more powerful and more papery
#102Can any remarkable owners comment on the reliability/robustness of the document storage? Does it store versions and/or backups? I made the mistake of buying an equilpen2 at an apple store years ago. I say mistake not because I didn't like the product (I used it for hundreds of pages of notes over the year or two after I bought it and loved that it let me write on regular paper) but because the company gave up on the…
The cloud sync/storage is pretty rudimentary, no versions or anything like that. But they have an app for desktop/phone so you can download and backup. There are unofficial client libraries for the cloud API as well, so it can be automated.
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#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
FWIW you can basically leave a Kindle in airplane mode all the time and copy books over USB. Plus it extends the already great battery life.
Yup, this is what I do. Battery lasts forever. Since I get most of the books off Project Gutenberg, there wouldn't be any slick wifi transfers for me anyway.
You can use slick wifi with Gutenberg books!
There is a “send to kindle” function which allows you to either use a desktop application, or set up an email address you can send .mobi files to!
Highly recommended if you get tired of plugging in - thats why I swapped from my old Kobo to a Kindle.
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#104One thing that's rarely mentioned about this device, but is the reason I sprung for it, is that the developers left an SSH interface into the device over USB, so you can program custom apps!
People have made some neat stuff, and there's a Rust library for making apps: https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable
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#105I bought the original version but found that some PDF files absolutely destroyed it. Not massive files where each page is a scanned picture, just regular PDFs from academic journals. I'd open one, it would spend 20+ seconds displaying the "working" spinner, then often as not it would reboot . Had to return it. I was also pretty shocked that there was no way to get a list of all annotations you've added to a given PDF…
I have a remarkable and use it for reading academic paper PDFs all the time. The software has gotten far better over time.
I'm very glad it's working well for you, but the software as of January 2020 was unable to properly read PDFs from a particular journal... it may have been Science.
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#106Since the article is unviewable without throwing away your privacy, here is a primary source instead: https://remarkable.com/
From the video, it looks to me like they're pressing the stylus fairly hard on the tablet, I wonder what's up with that. Also, I wish they were able to use an e-paper with a faster refresh rate, like ClearInk claims to be (see e.g. https://youtu.be/kE_byDwLjxk?t=34 ). That said, it seems to look quite attractive as is already.
I do pointed pen calligraphy and various penamanship styles and I can tell you that the remarkable tablet requires VERY, VERY little pressure to register a stroke. It takes almost no modification for me to get the fine delicate linework required for Spencerian for example.
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#107I'm using this $13 "NEWYES 12" LCD Writing Tablet Digital Drawing Tablet Handwriting Pads Portable Electronic Tablet Board ultra-thin Board with pen"
As a better paper, without any distractions, works well!! I have one at work, on my desk, I have one for each kid doing maths with them on it, it's awesome. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32922602355.html?spm=a2g0o.p...
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
Reflective or iridescent, the nature of light that falls into your eyes doesn't change. Low-power is definitely an attribute that I can get behind but modern batteries are good enough to not go underpowered when it comes to books. Downvoters: yes, you deserve the truth! :-)
Reflective displays have the advantage of perfectly adapting their brightness to their surroundings. This is especially useful for portable devices. Emissive displays can have light-sensor-controlled brightness, but they don't adapt pixel by pixel like reflective displays. However, if you are using an emissive display in an environment with constant and even lighting, you can set the brightness correctly and it will…
> have the advantage of perfectly adapting their brightness to their surroundings.
The surroundings might not be lit enough for the health of eyes. This is the usual case and one of the prime issues why dead tree books and e-paper tablets lead to weak eyes.
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#109I really love the ReMarkable and this was an easy preorder. The only thing I personally disliked was 1. No eraser on the pen and 2. No USB-C support. Both are resolved here
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#110What's their portability story? I don't want my personal knowledge store to be locked into a platform, particularly one that's not guaranteed to last. PDF exports don't cut it, my notes are living documents. I'm really sad that nobody has adequately addressed interoperability in the digital inking space; I'd gladly switch to an iPad or reMarkable, but so far I'm still the neckbeard inking in Xournal on an old Thinkpa…
Not great, you can only officially export PDF, PNG, or SVG, though their cloud management does seem to work really well and as I understand, files are stored locally on each device once synced.
That said, it runs linux so you could conceivably backup the files yourself. You can ssh into your tablet, run sftp, w/e. But they are in some proprietary .lines format.
There's a wiki with more details (the file format stuff is further down): https://remarkablewiki.com/tech/filesystem
It may be possilbe you could hack it to run xournal, but I've no idea.