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Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by wellthisisgreat »

xrd wrote: post #190
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 excitedly went to that channel. I'm overwhelmed! Can you tell me the top three devices he recommends so I can review those videos? Man, he makes a lot of stuff!

I went through all of these devices a couple years ago, and chose Supernote A5X which seems to be the winner on that channel too.

I think they are about to release Sueprnote A5X2 in a few weeks also

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by opdahl »

cubefox wrote: post #323

So according to the "deep guide" video review, this uses E Ink's "Gallery 3" e-paper screen. Which, unlike conventional displays, doesn't use additive subpixel color mixing. Instead it uses subtractive color mixing inside each pixel: It layers transparent cyan, magenta and yellow, and opaque white pigments, over each other. Which creates cyan, magenta, yellow and white as primary colors, and red, green, blue and blac…

This makes you wonder if they are hitting some sort of physical limit regarding e-ink technology and color representation. If they are forced to dither them like they are doing now, will we ever get good saturation with e-ink?

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by hyperbrainer »

justinlloyd wrote: post #446
nenaoki wrote: post #442

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A4 surely. A1 paper is massive.

The kind of ebook reader you open to the crossword puzzle and say "harrumph" an awful lot whilst sitting in your high back wing chair in front of the fireplace where discrete employees refill your brandy snifter. You may occasionally bend down one corner of the ebook reader as you peer askance at the likes of who they are letting in these days. There is a member of staff whose sole job it is to stand nearby with a re…

Get a touchscreen TV?

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by cubefox »

opdahl wrote: post #482
cubefox wrote: post #323

So according to the "deep guide" video review, this uses E Ink's "Gallery 3" e-paper screen. Which, unlike conventional displays, doesn't use additive subpixel color mixing. Instead it uses subtractive color mixing inside each pixel: It layers transparent cyan, magenta and yellow, and opaque white pigments, over each other. Which creates cyan, magenta, yellow and white as primary colors, and red, green, blue and blac…

This makes you wonder if they are hitting some sort of physical limit regarding e-ink technology and color representation. If they are forced to dither them like they are doing now, will we ever get good saturation with e-ink?

Printers also use dithering, it's not a limitation for saturation. The saturation only depends on how saturated the base colors are.

The actual physical limitation is the electrophoresis technology. I'm pretty sure moving particles around in a viscous fluid will never be fast.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by zerreh50 »

ajot wrote: post #313
dotancohen wrote: post #219

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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.

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…

Koreader handles the reading part perfectly on my Boox device. For ftp I use the default Boox functionality which works well for me. Einkbro is good but I ultimately stick to Firefox for the sync between devices. No experience with other launchers as I don't use any other apps and the default one doesn't bother me

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by justinlloyd »

hyperbrainer wrote: post #483
justinlloyd wrote: post #446

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The kind of ebook reader you open to the crossword puzzle and say "harrumph" an awful lot whilst sitting in your high back wing chair in front of the fireplace where discrete employees refill your brandy snifter. You may occasionally bend down one corner of the ebook reader as you peer askance at the likes of who they are letting in these days. There is a member of staff whose sole job it is to stand nearby with a re…

Get a touchscreen TV?

To difficult to swat flies with and the hired help cannot spread them on the kitchen floor after mopping so that the floor dries faster.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by benoau »

ChuckMcM wrote: post #425
freedomben wrote: post #324

There aren't many companies for whom I have love like Remarkable. All I've ever wanted is hardware that isn't needlessly closed or locked down, that is hacker friendly. Remarkable mostly delivered that. But it feels like they've been increasingly moving away from that, especially where the openness now competes with their cloud subscription. Given the amount of love the open source community has shown Remarkable, I t…

Pretty classic enshittification. I expect one response might end up being 'contract' developers who sign a contract of 3 years to develop an application and then after three years they go out and find a new contract. I reason to this because software in hardware produces revenue only during hardware sales which typically fall off after the initial wave. Without continual revenue your business model goes upside down w…

I think that's an interesting insight. Another model like this is game development, most games are built with an explicit intention to not maintain that code forever, to stop development as soon as possible.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by DavideNL »

sulam wrote: post #464
DavideNL wrote: post #387

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> " I just worry about using Android… " Exactly, I'm avoiding them for the same reason, I don't want to use a personal e-ink device running on an OS created by the biggest advertiser in the world. I was hoping Pocketbook would release something new this year running some Linux distro / with less tracking, and more privacy. PS. Also: i want a light sensor to automatically adjust brightness/night mode based on lighting…

AOSP is free and clear of Google beyond the obvious fact that a lot of engineers paid by Google contribute to it.

Can AOSP be installed on the Boox (10.3) though? I thought the bootloader was locked…

In any case, i think going this route might be very finicky, i’m afraid it would become a new hobby just to get it up and running / and keep it updated.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by adastra22 »

bccdee wrote: post #419
adastra22 wrote: post #327

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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.

Maybe? Anicdata, but nobody I know who has a reMarkable tablet uses that interaction mode. If I want a keyboard, I'll use a laptop.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by CapeTheory »

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've been using a reMarkable since the first release and have never experienced what you describe. Yes, the updated focus on typing more recently - but what else can they really do for the writing experience without new hardware? Lots of updates I don't care about, but none that make it "worse".
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