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Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by Ancapistani »

lidavidm wrote: post #64
orliesaurus wrote: post #18

can I read mangas with this?

I posted some other comments in this thread - unless they've significantly improved the software in the past year I would 100% recommend against it. (Also, a lot of manga gets distributed through proprietary apps now so an iPad is probably your best bet anyways, at least if you read the serialized version and not the tankoubon releases...)

The eReader functionality is... poor but usable.

EPUB rendering is slow the first time you open it, and notes and highlights get lost when you change text size.

On the other hand, PDF rendering is excellent. I make it a point to buy PDF versions of ebooks and have had no issues using it like that.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by Ancapistani »

create-username wrote: post #154

lack of USB-C thunderbolt to screen sharing while battery charging is a deal killer for me

The rM2 at least allows you to screenshare wirelessly, which of course can be done while charging. I expect this one will be the same in that respect.

The rM2 also "just runs linux" under the hood. I bet you could write a utility to screenshare over USB if you really wanted to.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by ajot »

dotancohen wrote: post #372
ajot wrote: post #313

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As I don't have an Android eink device (I do have an Android phone and a Kobo with KOReader, for the record), I would like to know: have you tried (and what are your opinions on) any apps designed specifically for eink screens? Thinking about EInkBro [0] as the browser or ReLaunchX [1] as the launcher, even KOReader as document reader. [0] https://github.com/plateaukao/einkbro [1] https://github.com/Leszek111/ReLaunc…

EInkBro is terrific. I filed a bug last year, the dev fixed it in less than a week. I use the stock launcher, but on an old Nook I used ReLaunchX, it was fine. On that device I only had two applications that I used anyway. I have not tried KOReader, but I can test it for you. What features do you use?

Oh, it was just out of curiosity, as an eInk device with a more accessible platform (compared to my old Kobo with it's old Linux system) is something I love to daydream of. Thank you for your reviews!

As for KOReader, I mostly use the epub reading capabilities, and the FTP client for getting files onto it. I've tried it as an app on my Android phone but it felt a bit cumbersome in a smaller screen, and I think the faster refresh rate of LCD panels doesn't suit it well. I do really love it on my Kobo, though.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by nerdjon »

adastra22 wrote: post #330
nerdjon wrote: post #325

Every time I see this device pop up, I really struggle to find out what exactly this has over something like an iPad with an Apple Pencil? With this one being $579 including the basic marker. The iPad Air with an 11" screen with the cheaper pencil is $678. iPad with an 11" screen and the cheaper pencil is $428. If it is the screen feel, how does that compare to the paperlike screen protectors for iPad? Some say a lac…

For someone with ADHD, “do not disturb” is not a reliable solution to the distraction problem.

That kinda sounds like a thing where a big improvement to the Focus feature to lock you to a specific app (or disable apps instead of just removing them from your Home Screen) would address this problem?

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by create-username »

Ancapistani wrote: post #412
create-username wrote: post #154

lack of USB-C thunderbolt to screen sharing while battery charging is a deal killer for me

The rM2 at least allows you to screenshare wirelessly, which of course can be done while charging. I expect this one will be the same in that respect. The rM2 also "just runs linux" under the hood. I bet you could write a utility to screenshare over USB if you really wanted to.

Wirelessly using a pc connected to the screen. Which means I need a laptop as well.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by KaiserPro »

This looks insteresting to me.

I did look at getting a RM2, but for the same price I could get a iPad with a pencil. Granted the pencil wasn't that great, but the software on the iPad is.

I have good notes on the iPad which is great for "journaling" and it almost works like the microsoft courier concept

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by hiq »

paulcole wrote: post #44

I ordered mine and am very excited for it. I use it everyday at work (handwritten notes and reviewing short PDFs like resumes and white papers). It’s one of the biggest professional ROI investments that I’ve ever made. The people who hate the Remarkable seem to be either zealots for openness or people who want to read ebooks on it or people who hate subscriptions. Those 3 things don’t matter to me at all so I’ve been…

What line of work are you in?

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by noname120 »

thimabi wrote: post #179
fumar wrote: post #155

It has 229 pixels per inch based on the E in Gallery 3 display. On E ink’s site, the Gallery 3 product specs says support is up to 300 ppi. Remarkable should’ve gone with the higher resolution.

I concur. For a device of that price, size, and considering the reading and note-taking use case, only 229 ppi is abysmal. Why cut corners in a key part of the product?

E Ink has a monopoly on microcapsule displays and the prices are incredibly high. The device would be much more expensive if they used the high-density display.

As an example the E Ink Kaleido 3 screen part (only the screen!) costs $449[1] per piece: https://shopkits.eink.com/en/product/detail/13.3''Kaleido3eP...

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by bccdee »

adastra22 wrote: post #327
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…

Every single update has made my reMarkable tablet worse. I’ve stopped using it as a result. I have absolutely no idea why they went all in on keyboard input, when the whole freaking point of the tablet was that you could write on it like paper.

I imagine a lot of people bought reMarkables, enjoyed the stylus handwriting for a few weeks, and then remembered that they actually prefer typing to writing by hand. So the product shifted to become a keyboard-driven device with an e-ink screen that incidentally offers handwriting as a novelty, rather than a primarily handwriting-driven device.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by cxvrfr »

diggan wrote: post #101
gizmo wrote: post #54

What does the ReMarkable really excel at? You can make notes, but the software is not that great from what I've seen. It doesn't have end-to-end encryption so I wouldn't use it for anything important. You can read PDFs but typing notes is much faster on a desktop/laptop, and for nontechnical books a kindle is much better form factor. You can use it to draw, but e-ink is inferior to a wacom tablet or iPad pro. e-ink i…

> What does the ReMarkable really excel at? Writing notes with a pencil. I think they make this pretty clear. Anything outside of that is either a bonus or out of scope for the device. > It doesn't have end-to-end encryption so I wouldn't use it for anything important Don't use the cloud sync and instead manually sync things between your own hardware, encrypt at rest if you feel like it. > e-ink is great in bright en…

> Writing notes with a pencil. I think they make this pretty clear. Anything outside of that is either a bonus or out of scope for the device.

Awful/barely functioning OCR kind of eliminates one of the main advantages it could have over paper notebooks, search and indexing, though.

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