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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

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Post by brewdad »

prostheticvamp wrote: post #158
Enginerrrd wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I love all the comments like this. It sounds great. But they all reference such tactile experiences that I’m left thinking, “huh, I might buy this, IF I could try it out.” Where does one do that?

At home. They have a 30-day returns policy with free return shipping if you don't like it.

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Post by ACS_Solver »

gfaure wrote: post #170

Is it possible to keep documents entirely local and guarantee that ReMarkable doesn't have access to data? From what I recall, their Terms of Service leave this possibility open. This made ReMarkable a non-starter for many companies that have policies around where internal data may be stored.

I commented elsewhere that it's a big miss by marketing, they neglect to mention that all connectivity features are optional. You can use it without ever creating an account or connecting to the Internet.

Re: ReMarkable’s redesigned e-paper tablet is more powerful and more papery

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Post by mbreese »

stronglikedan wrote: post #116
carlosdp wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's up to you, but the drawing experience feels wayyyy better on the remarkable than on the smooth glass of the iPad, from my own experience. It's also far lighter and really does feel paper-y.

My boss has an iPad with the Paperlike screen protector, and it makes me jealous. Just something to look into if you don't like the glass.

I just added the Paperlike 2 protector to my iPad Pro a few month ago. It's amazing to write on now. You can notice a bit of distortion in the display, but it's really nothing that bothers me at all. I've been very happy with this combination. Because of this setup, I've switched almost all of my note taking over to my iPad. Before, I only took notes in a paper notebook (large Moleskine soft cover). And so far, I haven't had any excess wear and tear on the Pencil nib...

The only issue I had was waiting on shipping from Germany.

Re: ReMarkable’s redesigned e-paper tablet is more powerful and more papery

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Post by dredmorbius »

I'd just written Remarkable voicing my concerns with the gen 1 tablet.

One concern, the ability to access material off the Web, has been addressed.

Another has not: the Gen 2 tablet still has only 8 GB storage.

On my current, much-despised, Android tablet, I have a 128GB microSD card with over 32 GB of documents, in a range of formats -- the overwhelming majority are PDF and ePub, but also djvu, docx, txt, htmk, chm, ppt, pptx, and other formats.

With the paltry cost of storage, cripling the Remarkable with anything less than 128-256 GB staggers the mind.

I'd also very much like to have an eccessible, full-featured Linux userland, even if only console mode, as this is invaluable to me (the file extension-based counts and storage utilisation come via Termux utilities on the Android tablet). A keyboard (external, Bluetooth), and terminal driver, would be sufficient for this.

Re: ReMarkable’s redesigned e-paper tablet is more powerful and more papery

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Post by dredmorbius »

marvindanig wrote: post #108
mrob wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Booklights are a thing.

Cheap, modular, long battery life, effective.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=booklight&ia=images&iax=images

Re: ReMarkable’s redesigned e-paper tablet is more powerful and more papery

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Post by dredmorbius »

carlosdp wrote: post #104

One 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

Is there terminal support?

Re: ReMarkable’s redesigned e-paper tablet is more powerful and more papery

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Post by e12e »

Anyone have any look developing and running software on this thing?

https://remarkable.engineering/

Isn't easy to find from the official site (remarkable.com), and I've yet to find a simple "Hello, world"-example from ReMarkable...

Ed: i see there already are some comments on this topic. I think I just might pre-order an rm2.

Re: ReMarkable’s redesigned e-paper tablet is more powerful and more papery

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Post by type0 »

Avery3R wrote: post #92
ACS_Solver wrote: post #24

Terrible link, the actual reMarkable website is much better. It's a very niche device but I've owned mine for nearly two years and am a big advocate. In some ways, the first model was proof of concept. Excellent hardware and writing experience, but the early versions of the software were horrible, and the device itself is very ugly. The software has improved dramatically in the time I've owned it, going from horrible…

Discussion re: if techcrunch should be banned from hn https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22539255

What is the HN policy about posting redirecting URLs to other pages in general? If there isn't one I think there should be clear rules on that. To be clear, I'm not talking about moved pages and links that change after submission.

Re: ReMarkable’s redesigned e-paper tablet is more powerful and more papery

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Post by monocasa »

marvindanig wrote: post #161
rout39574 wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Paper is just better than glowing screens for lots of perceptual tasks. No-flicker is better than flicker, too. Keep in mind that lots of our new mediums can be thought of as chaff in the way of reading the right good book.

Flicker?? Are you talking about CRT monitors still?

LCDs still flicker

Re: ReMarkable’s redesigned e-paper tablet is more powerful and more papery

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Post by ProZsolt »

jshevek wrote: post #77
g123g wrote: post #61

Is it worth it to buy just for reading purposes? I have a Kindle but a want bigger screen to read PDFs and web pages. Also, any integration with the Android app store?

It is perfectly serviceable for reading, though it may lack some of the reading oriented features of other eink devices. I love the large size for some of my documents, which are unpleasant to read on smaller devices.

What you re missing?
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