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Have they really embraced it though? Or this is an undocumented debugging port which may go away in a future software update?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13072748
that is encouraging
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The only thing that holds me from considering buying the remarkable is its size. If they would offer a 13 inch version, then I would consider doing that. Right now I am super happy with my sunny DPT-RP1.
What file format do the Sony's use? Is it cloud-based like the ReMarkable or can I manage the files myself locally and copy them over USB to my computer? I'd love to have an e-ink tablet for hand writing and sketching ideas, but I'm not crash hot on it all being locked in to some closed ecosystem.
FWIW, reMarkable device is accessible by ssh, so you can manage the files yourself. I don't think the format is well documented. I saw some articles about reverse engineering it, but it didn't feel well supported by any means. But if I wanted to use say a private GIT repo instead of rM cloud, I think that would not be very hard to set up.
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How is the PDF reading experience?
Mediocre, though reasonable for small PDFs. Reading something like scientific papers (5-10 pages) is pretty great, with long PDFs (manuals or ebooks) the navigation is a pain and you notice the slowdowns. I wouldn't get the rM as a reader, but reading and annotating PDFs is a decent secondary function.
Mostly seconded.
Short papers are just fine. Long documents, as long as you read them mostly sequentially, are IMHO just fine as well. But trying to read something where you need to flip around a lot is painful.
One of the use cases I had in mind when buying rM was reading stuff like IEEE 802 standards, programming language standards, hardware references, etc. But with these documents, the table of contents itself can have 10s of pages. The tools for searching and moving around are there, but the high latency of the e-ink makes them frustrating to use. And hyperlinks in PDFs are not active. And you can't bookmark something to create your personal collection of pages that you often need, which would somewhat alleviate the abovementioned frustration.
I use rM daily, but just not for reading manuals. It's just not a good use case for the device.
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It looks amazing. My concern is that it's around $500. That's about the price of an iPad and Apple pencil. Is it really worth the asking price?
People often compare it to an iPad initially, which completely misses the point in my view. The rM has nothing in common with an iPad, and the word "tablet" in the name makes people think of the completely wrong thing. The rM is best thought of as a pen and paper notebook, except of effectively infinite size. There are no apps. The UI (the only user-facing program) has minimal features, most of which are there just t…
> of effectively infinite size
Just to make this bit clear: with effectively infinite number of pages. One would imagine that panning around infinitely large pages would be a possibility with a product like this, but the feature is not there.
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#285I am the kind of person who takes notes and write on paper daily, for pleasure, and I have no problem managing or carrying paper notebooks. Does anyone know were could I personally try reMarkable 2 in Germany or Europe?
Does anyone know on whether it is possible to read kindle purchased books or converted ebooks? What about custom software?
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I wonder if I say dang three times in a mirror, he will show up and take advice on HN policy changes. I really would like to see TC just gone. It didn't use to be this bad, but they've been going downhill since... forever, really.
Beetlejuice didn't so much show up and take advice as he showed up and tried stage a shotgun wedding with your underage daughter in order to exploit some sort of interdimensional green card loophole. This is suddenly very reminiscent of John Mulaney describing Back to the Future...
The whole "say someone's name 3 times in a mirror" predates Beetlejuice by a long stretch. That said, I don't know of any of the those myths that ended in happy endings for those saying the name, so I think your main point still stands. ;)
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#287What I don't understand is why the display is not vertically symmetrical. Then the software could eventually be made to allow 180 degree rotation of the interface. This way the device could be used by both left-handed and right-handed people equally.
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#288I bought one of these for my fiance for Christmas, and she loves it. She uses it to take notes during meetings, and then convert them to text and import into OneNote. It seems to work fantastically for that.
I was a little leery, after my experience buying a similar e-ink tablet years ago through indiegogo, which took forever to get delivered, shipped with a painfully obsolete version of Android, and bricked itself in short order, but this seems like a very solid product.
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#289I am the kind of person who takes notes and write on paper daily, for pleasure, and I have no problem managing or carrying paper notebooks. Does anyone know were could I personally try reMarkable 2 in Germany or Europe? Does anyone know on whether it is possible to read kindle purchased books or converted ebooks? What about custom software?
Now that I read almost everything online:
- You can't read Kindle books directly on the reMarkable (DRM not supported)
- It has support for ePub and PDF
- It runs a Linux accessible by SSH and hacker friendly (check awesome remarkable on github)
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#290One 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
This is what I was looking for and their website fails to mention it on the landing page, at least. Would you know of any Emacs/org-mode extensions for this device? Thank you for sharing!
since it has SSH support, it is a linux with command line tools and you can write not just your own applications but use as well an external keyboard... (build your own fantasy from here because no one has solved your exact problem for you yet)
https://www.reddit.com/r/RemarkableTablet/comments/e8p22h/re...