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Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by freilanzer » Thu, Sep 05, 2024, 5:00 PM UTC

catchmost wrote: post #514

freilanzer wrote: post #332

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> My needs are mostly note taking and reading technical PDFs, and for that the reMarkable is fantastic. I do both of those and I dislike the RM2. There's little space for notes above and below the PDF page, no infinite canvas. I have more space on the back of a printed PDF (to the left of the current text page) than in the RM2. So, all note taking in a PDF for me is just keywords, while I would much prefer to put tex…

Try checking for software updates? My RM2 got infinite canvas in an update some time ago. That said, I don't really use that feature and find it annoying when I accidentally move the canvas instead of turning to the next page. This whole paper tablet space looks like a place full of tradeoffs where it's hard to please everyone... IMHO overall remarkable is doing that balancing act quite well.

Yes, in notes themselves there's an infinite canvas towards the bottom. I meant a canvas around a PDF to take notes alongside the paper - which is 50% of my use case.

I don't feel it balances the features well, just today they released another update for their keyboard support. For me, that's setting false priorities for a device that's designed for handwriting.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by joacco » Thu, Sep 05, 2024, 5:41 PM UTC

snickerbockers wrote: post #329

Reminds me of my old livescribe pen i had as an undergrad. It was a ballpoint-pen with a little computer inside and a camera pointing down the tip of the pen. You'd use it with special notebooks that had very small dot-patterns printed on the paper, and the computer could decode that to get its position on the page. Then you'd plug it into your PC's USB port to upload a digital copy of your notes. There was surprisin…

I too had a livescribe pen 12 or so years ago! It was so cool for the time

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by WillAdams » Thu, Sep 05, 2024, 6:14 PM UTC

Qwertious wrote: post #445

WillAdams wrote: post #131

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Apparently, it was a big loss and probably won't ever come back in stock.

As someone who's been following #pinenote for the last ~3 years this isn't true, it's "not dead yet" but Pine64 refuses to ship a second batch until they have a stable community distro to ship pre-flashed. Currently the hardware support itself is sorted, and the desktop integration just needs to be sorted out.

That's great to hear!

I'll be first in line to buy when they do a second batch.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by tony2016 » Thu, Sep 05, 2024, 6:24 PM UTC

selykg wrote: post #289

I previously wrote about how difficult it was to return and get a refund on a Remarkable 2. It was hell. I would highly recommend avoiding them like the freaking plague if you're at all on the fence, because it's a hellacious process to return one. I also assume that if you were to ever need to use the warranty for any purpose that requires returning the product it's going to be the same thing and also awful. Buyer b…

Buy from Amazon. Returns are a breeze.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by tony2016 » Thu, Sep 05, 2024, 6:27 PM UTC

alexpetralia wrote: post #241

I use the Fujitsu Quaderno A4 as my daily reader and notetaker (PDFs only).. it is absolutely fantastic. Simple but extremely thoughtful design. Extraordinarily light, durable, long battery. "It just works".

I only see covers and screen protectors on Amazon. Is this a discontinued tablet?

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by tony2016 » Thu, Sep 05, 2024, 6:29 PM UTC

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…

Easier on the eyes. No light emitting hitting your eyes. Can read outside in sunlight.

Read about the advantages of e-ink.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by tony2016 » Thu, Sep 05, 2024, 6:33 PM UTC

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.

Do you need to have hundreds and thousands of pdfs on a reading device? How fast can you read?

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by adastra22 » Thu, Sep 05, 2024, 6:37 PM UTC

paulcole wrote: post #506

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 have absolutely no idea why they went all in on keyboard input Yeah it sucked how they bricked every Remarkable without a keyboard attached and made everybody mail their markers back in.

The update which added all the keyboard features made the writing experience much worse. In particular the hand contact detection was changed in a bad way, so if became very easy to accidentally resize/zoom the display when writing.

It got so annoying that I switched to an iPad.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by OtomotO » Thu, Sep 05, 2024, 7:37 PM UTC

hnlmorg wrote: post #494

appletrotter wrote: post #428

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The Google drive integration is completely different to the connect one. It’s not automatic, it’s manual. It works essentially in the same way that the ‘send to email’ feature works. Which means if you make a change to a file, you have to delete the file on gdrive and reupload it.

Of course it's different. reMarkable are trying to leverage their own solution. It pays for them to make the user journey a little more awkward. But 3rd party integrations still exist and they do still work.

And they needlessly crippled them, hence I'll never buy an expensive product from them.

It's capitalism, baby!

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by kkfx » Thu, Sep 05, 2024, 7:48 PM UTC

eythian wrote: post #512

kkfx wrote: post #405

Well... While I admire reMarkable in technical terms, I'll not buy a black box where I have to hack the box just to manage my system. I do not care much about handwriting recognition and other "cool solution to help the end user", I do care about no eye strain reading of LONG damn documents, where scrolling distract instead of help, and casual ability to draw things. Period. Unfortunately they took a classic commerci…

Do you mean hack the box in "go to this page in the settings where it tells you the root password", or something else?

No, in plain filesystem access, mounting it like any other file system on a mass storage, putting there my pdfs, pulling them back etc. I do look for a simple pdf/ebook reader with e-ink display large enough to fit A4 without zooming back, with essentially the same features of Evince/pdf-tools and so on. NOTHING more, nor less, nor with extra layer of complexity for commercial purposes.