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Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by Apocryphon »

hoherd wrote: post #175
daft_pink wrote: post #129

I own a kindle, but I find it’s often just easier and better to use my iPad Pro and the upside of having a fully functional device outweighs the fancy display tech. I think it’s important to consider if eink so great that it justifies such an expensive device over a more conventional tablet. Although, I do kind of want one.

I've read quite a bit on Kindle and Nook, iPad, and iPhone, and I think these Remarkable style eink writing devices and kindle style reading devices are each firmly in a small niche. The tech is really sexy, but for most people I think these kinds of devices and kindle kind of devices are impractical. For instance, with Kindle and nook, the best use I got out of it was reading on the train and bus where having a pape…

That PineNote page doesn't even have screenshots. Absolutely pathetic marketing.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by juahan »

sp1rit wrote: post #335
boomskats wrote: post #285

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've owned a rm2 since xmas 2020 and really used to love it. I even brought an old obsidian plugin for it back from the dead. But the power button gave up 13 months in and they were dicks about it, and then when the pen nib holder disintegrated and they insisted it wasn't a known defect, I just gave up and it's been sat on my shelf ever since. For anyone still into them though, a Lamy EMR pen coupled with the Wacom f…

They absolutely know about this, given that the seemingly reworked markers for this tablet have a redesigned nib holder that doesn't look like it breaks as easily as the old ones. This is a common enough issue that there are people on ebay selling caps to replace the broken nib holder, but they seem to expensive for what amounts to a piece of 3D-printed plastic; I might just look into your solution with the lamy pen.…

Not sure if country of residence makes any difference (I’m in EU), but at least I got a new pen from warranty when the nib holder broke. And I think it was even little over 2 years after the purchase.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by stonogo »

crooked-v wrote: post #337

For me the killer anti-feature of reMarkable devices is the limited storage. I have way more than 64 GB of ebooks and PDFs (lots of full-color tabletop game books), so anything that has both such limited storage and no SD card slot is off my radar.

It's not good as an e-book reader regardless of how much storage you need. It renders epubs to pdf on the fly (so changing the font size induces a long delay in a big document, for instance). The documentation even tells you it's not a good ebook reader.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by paradox460 »

dotancohen wrote: post #219
laserbeam wrote: post #123

I love my remarkable 2. Bought it before "Connect" was a thing, so I don't have a subscription. But I cannot recommend it to anyone. There are better alternatives out there and MyDeepGuide (youtube) has reviewed them all better than I ever could. The software is moving too slowly and often in a wrong direction. Especially since they released the keyboard folio most updates were around typing (which is supar on any ei…

I'm typing this on my Boox Note Air 2 Plus. I absolutely love this device. I usually use it without the backlight, but sometimes at night I'll use the backlight and the adjustable blue light filter is an absolute must. This is my fifth or sixth E-Ink device, and probably my favorite. It's an Android device, so everything that I was already using works on it. Notably Firefox when properly configured, and Ankidroid.

I really do love mine too, and support has been rather good. I do worry about it reaching end of life, but only mildly. I do wish that boox would open source their android changes, they are arguably the best in class features for eink, and beat the pants off systems like the Kindle

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by stonogo »

paxys wrote: post #33

Looks neat, but not being able to do something as simple as backup and sync without a monthly subscription makes this whole ecosystem a no go for me. Especially for a device that already costs $600-800.

you can backup and sync without the subscription. you just don't get unlimited storage.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by smithcoin »

croes wrote: post #360
BadHumans wrote: post #277

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I worked at company that required all paper notebooks to be handed in and destroyed. There are entire companies based on destroying sensitive paper documents.

They know that smartphone have cameras?

employees often aren't allowed to have them onsite in these circumstances for this precise reason.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by squarefoot »

mtrovo wrote: post #45
paxys wrote: post #33

Looks neat, but not being able to do something as simple as backup and sync without a monthly subscription makes this whole ecosystem a no go for me. Especially for a device that already costs $600-800.

Did they announce they're locking this new device? I have a remarkable 2 and it's basically a stripped down version of Linux that you can SSH in and install whatever you want on it.

> I have a remarkable 2 and it's basically a stripped down version of Linux that you can SSH in and install whatever you want on it.

Could you for example mount a NFS or CIFS directory on the LAN, then access .PDFs and documents in other formats without signing to any external service? I was looking for something like that and have been waiting for years for the PineNote to become ready, usable and available, but have given up. Unfortunately all readers out there are tied to this or that cloud service subscription, and I would use them only locally. (I call them readers because I don't need the note taking feature; being able to place bookmarks would be more than enough)

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by pcl »

tjoff wrote: post #352
pcl wrote: post #291

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Firmware updates blow away any customizations. So you need to bootstrap things again after each update. Updates can be deferred, so the process isn’t too disruptive. Edit: oh, yeah I see what you’re getting at. That direction could work, and I used to do that years ago, as it turns out, but these days I am frequently not on a familiar WiFi network when I’m using the tablet, so cabling has been more practical.

Ah, if I'm on the go I think I'd hotspot on my phone and sync via termux, but that is great to hear!

IME IP addresses handed out by my phone’s tethering mode aren’t stable, so it’s sorta more of a hassle than just fishing out the little cable and letting my script run. (The device assigns itself a stable IP address on the USB interface.)

Although I haven’t looked at those addresses in some time; perhaps they are more stable now than they used to be.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by cpard »

I love to write, actually I think I have to write as it’s the only way I’ve figured out on how to put guardrails on my thoughts.

I got my first remarkable a few years ago and I was super excited, I thought it could be the bridge between my need to write and the digital world.

I gave up, I also tried an iPad too but again I gave up.

I ended up using a cheap fountain pen and the paper that I like its texture.

I think the problem with all these devices is that from a product perspective they focus on the wrong things.

I don’t care about colors and syncing with the cloud or whatever else.

I care about emulating an as close as possible experience to natural writing and that means latency of the device and the tactile feeling I get when I touch the screen with the pen are the most important aspects.

I haven’t seen much there happening and maybe these are just too hard problems to solve.

Or maybe I’m just a member of a too niche group of people.

But until I find a digital writing instrument that gives me the sensory feedback of a pen an a paper I don’t see me going back to these devices.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by dotancohen »

paradox460 wrote: post #364
dotancohen wrote: post #219

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm typing this on my Boox Note Air 2 Plus. I absolutely love this device. I usually use it without the backlight, but sometimes at night I'll use the backlight and the adjustable blue light filter is an absolute must. This is my fifth or sixth E-Ink device, and probably my favorite. It's an Android device, so everything that I was already using works on it. Notably Firefox when properly configured, and Ankidroid.

I really do love mine too, and support has been rather good. I do worry about it reaching end of life, but only mildly. I do wish that boox would open source their android changes, they are arguably the best in class features for eink, and beat the pants off systems like the Kindle

I actually did love the E-Ink display algorithms, but maybe two months ago an update changed them and it is far worse. Lots of dithering, and I have a hard time configuring the "Enhance dark colours" and "Enhance light colours" settings to display apps as good as they were prior. Don't upgrade the OS!
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