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

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Post by LoveMortuus »

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…

Have you seen/tried DPT-S1/DPT-RP1 and if you have, what are your thoughts including compared to reMarkable, because I've been looking at these tablets for many many years now (There's even DPT-CP1 now). But because they are all very costly, it's really hard to decide, I did buy DPT-RP1 for ~800€ but because of the high price, I returned it.

Also, how often do you need to buy new tips, or do they not wear out? I'm asking because the ones for DPT family are designed in such a way that they wear out. I guess I've always been more on the DPT side, because it's made by Sony, which gives me a feeling of confort, you know, a company with long history.

If price wasn't an issue, which would you prefer. rM2 does look much more refined and it is half the price of DPT-RP1 (the Sony website does list the price at ~600$ but sadly the reality is that if you want to buy that in the EU the price is approximately:

EU_price = base_price + (base_price*0.22))

And of course the shipping...

I really hope rM2 turns out to be an amazing product, because the digital paper market feels very stagnant at the moment.

I would love to hear more of your experiences with the device. Thank you,

Lots of Love Mortuus

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

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Post by rattray »

dredmorbius wrote: post #174

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,…

While I'd love full linux, personally I'd happily settle for just a bluetooth (or even usb) keyboard and a decent "write plain text" app.

My handwriting is terrible, and while I'd love to unplug for reading/writing, I haven't found an acceptable solution for doing so beyond a Chromebook with wifi turned off and/or a "self control" web extension.

EDIT: from elsewhere in this thread, I see https://github.com/dps/remarkable-keywriter which looks interesting. Curious to hear how it plays with the remarkable 2, esp around lag

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

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Post by Paul-ish »

Foxboron wrote: post #151
anentropic wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have they really embraced it though? Or this is an undocumented debugging port which may go away in a future software update?

Martin Sandsmark, the CTO, is a KDE developer and long-time Arch Linux community...guy. It's not going away in a future software update :)

That is just one person, who can leave.

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

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Post by kybernetikos »

Judging by the technical specifications on https://remarkable.com/ it seems not to have a microsd card or much in the way of onboard storage. I wonder if the device can recognize a storage device attached to the usb-c port.

The writing experience, battery life and hackability are very appealing to me, but it also looks like it's not as good a reading device as high end readers, where really good lighting and water resistance are common. It's also slightly big for me. The size would be great for academic pdfs, or reference works but for normal books, or even for normal note taking (rather than sketching) it's a little on the large side. Maybe if it had less bezel, the size could be closer to best of both.

I don't mind it having a high price point, but I hoped that it would compete with high-price point e-readers (kobo forma / kindle oasis) too.

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

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Post by hawski »

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

With this in mind I would buy it, but with current pandemic it will have to wait.

Links/lynx should work great on such a device.

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

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Post by jmiserez »

mNovak wrote: post #98
smt1 wrote: post #47

I've had a Remarkable1 for about three months. It's one of the best investments I've made in a long time. Going to preorder this. Only caveats - I like aftermarket cases more than Remarkable's. I bought one one from Amazon for about 30$. Also I've been using staedtler's digital pencils, works great!

What's the writing resolution like? My problem has always been that I write really small, so most tablets feel pudgy. I've long thought about getting one of these, but don't want to shell out $500 if I can't comfortably write on it.

It probably depends on what you mean by really small.

Writing resolution is pretty good and most importantly it tracks the tip precisely. It's not as sharp as a real 0.2mm mechanical pencil, but you can write legibly down to ~2mm line height (1).

The larger factor is the contrast: the reMarkable screen is light grey so I usually write larger than I would on white paper.

(1) not at the very edge of the page, but maybe v2 fixes that

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

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Post by Brakenshire »

m-p-3 wrote: post #190

I know it would probably go against what they're aiming for (distraction-free, no social media), but it would be an instant-buy for me if I could have an email client (IMAP, Exchange), calendar (CalDAV, Exchange), RSS feeds (along with popular services like Feedly, Inoreader or your own server) and why not a service like Instapaper/Pocket/Wallabag builtin. Being able to do work-related stuff other than taking notes w…

https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable

There’s a script to upload files from Instapaper on, not sure how well it works.

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