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Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by dTal »

pjmlp wrote: post #244
bee_rider wrote: post #237

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just worry about using Android… this sort of e-ink device seems somehow even more personal than a laptop or cellphone (which are already quite personal); like a journal or something. I’d love one that had a community developed OS, like Linux or BSD.

By now it is more than proven that devices with community developed OSes never take off to the amount to keep a sustainable business, and then there is the whole FOSS OS distribution politics on top.

I don't think that's true, but in any case it doesn't have to be "community developed" to not be Android.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by nar001 »

dotancohen wrote: post #373
eightysixfour wrote: post #348

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Every time I look at it I get turned off by Android 11 being so old. I don’t know the Google ecosystem as well, how much longer will that API version be supported? Does it get security updates? Can I unlock it and install something less Googled?

I don't believe that there are third-party Android builds for the Boox devices, simply because they've modified it to better fit E-Ink screens.

No, there aren't any because they don't follow the GPL and haven't released their sources at all

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by chatmasta »

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 had one of those. It also had some audio transcription capability, so you could take notes aligned with a lecture and then tap a letter on the page to play the audio that was recorded when you wrote it.

I never used it extensively but I remember it also had a nice integration with EverNote. That was truly a bygone era of productivity tools that are now zombie companies…

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by maximus-decimus »

mkl wrote: post #466
maximus-decimus wrote: post #432

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I regret buying mine. I like my Sony dpts1 much better which was 13 inches (a great size for reading book pdfs) while managing to be lighter somehow. I also used that to take university notes and do university cs homework. I just can't recommend an e-book reader that's smaller than a piece of A1 paper if its purpose is to replace A1 sized paper (either books or notebooks)

A4 paper has a diagonal of about 364mm (≈14.3 inches). I've not seen an e-paper e-book reader that big. Several companies lie and claim to have A4 screens when they're considerably smaller.

the DPT-S1 is 13.3-inch. It's close enough I haven't even noticed it's not the size of A4. It's huge.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by cubefox »

whereistimbo wrote: post #509
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…

Japan Display Inc showcased e-paper like LCD 11 years ago. It even has e-paper features like retained pixel at low power consumption. With further work notetaking will be possible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=mdXu9jmTI2A

Some 10 to 15 years ago many companies worked on reflective screens, but most all seem to have been abandoned following the dominance of E Ink's monochrome electrophoresis displays.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by LoveMortuus »

I've both bought and sold my ReMarkable 2.

I bought it before they added a subscription, so I was spared the pain.

For me personally, it was too expensive to be able to just use the device and not worry about damaging it, I even stopped wearing a watch, because I worried that it might scratch the display.

I don't have that worry with a notebook, but then again, notebook is physically limited especially when compared to digital tablets.

I do enjoy writing, so after I sold my unit, I went back to pen and paper, but I do still love the tech so I keep an eye on it!

Usually colour E-ink is slower than monochrome, I wonder what the product will actually look like and function, when it launches.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by alexpetralia »

tony2016 wrote: post #525
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?

I ordered mine over eBay. They only ship from resellers in Japan.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by loongloong »

kstrauser wrote: post #476
loongloong wrote: post #470

Can anyone share their experiences with the new Kobo colour devices with pen support (like the Libra Colour)? Been itching to upgrade my beloved Libra H20. Thanks in advance.

Not color, but I got an Elipsa 2E to augment my Libra 2 (different sizes, different use cases). It works really, really well. The notebook software is nearly as advertised.

Thanks, quite interested to explore how color and pen will change my use of an eReader...

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by eli4d »

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 have a ReMarkable 2.

I 100% agree with this - hardware is great but the software is terrible and it isn't being improved. They think of themselves as Apple in terms of the design but they forget that Apple also has decent software.

A couple of other things: - The Connect subscription: you don't need to use it if you use a USB connector to your computer and run the reMarkable app (but it's annoying). Because they use a custom OS they can't have a Dropbox, Google Drive, or One drive app. If they used Android than they could have this. - They have a document type called Notebook. You can create a Notebook and it comes with different templates for page designs (lined, graph, etc..). The galling thing is that they don't allow you to load your own template. You can do so if you ssh in and modify the OS but then any update destroys everything. I contacted them about this and the answer was basically "we don't give a crap".

I will NEVER buy anything from this company. They like to naval gaze at their hardware and they don't care about the software nor their users.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by gitaarik »

paulcole wrote: post #518
wpm wrote: post #513

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Friend, like 50% of the content on this website is blog posts. Are there only six of us? Are all these accounts just bots? Are you even real? Am I even real????

The guys my dad goes to the diner with still have cassette players in their trucks. When they look around they see other cassette listeners.

I read blog posts
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