Is it worth it to buy just for reading purposes? I have a Kindle but a want bigger screen to read PDFs and web pages.
Also, any integration with the Android app store?
ReMarkable’s redesigned e-paper tablet is more powerful and more papery
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#62why so many posts to hacker News about this today? Seems and feels like guerrilla marketing.
>why so many posts to hacker News about this today? Seems and feels like guerrilla marketing.
Are you accusing the people who posted these links of being employees of Remarkable? If so, you could just look at their comment histories to see if it seems likely before posting a general accusation.
I am fascinated by this product. It is far more interesting to me than much of what Apple, Google, Samsung, Microsoft, or Amazon have done in a tablet form factor in many years. I'm not surprised that others may have a similar level of interest.
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
Whatever pushes progress in the low-power, reflective technology of epaper displays should be celebrated, I think. One could imagine hacking something like this tablet to have a true interactive Squeak like environment on it. Or, better yet, a Squeak-like environment designed from the ground up specifically for epaper displays...
Reflective or iridescent, the nature of light that falls into your eyes doesn't change. Low-power is definitely an attribute that I can get behind but modern batteries are good enough to not go underpowered when it comes to books. Downvoters: yes, you deserve the truth! :-)
Reflective displays have the advantage of perfectly adapting their brightness to their surroundings. This is especially useful for portable devices. Emissive displays can have light-sensor-controlled brightness, but they don't adapt pixel by pixel like reflective displays.
However, if you are using an emissive display in an environment with constant and even lighting, you can set the brightness correctly and it will be just as good. Many people in such lightning conditions configure their displays wrong and mistake the misconfiguration for an inherent disadvantage of emissive displays.
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#64Terrible link, the actual reMarkable website is much better. It's a very niche device but I've owned mine for nearly two years and am a big advocate. In some ways, the first model was proof of concept. Excellent hardware and writing experience, but the early versions of the software were horrible, and the device itself is very ugly. The software has improved dramatically in the time I've owned it, going from horrible…
This, centum percentum! If 'papery' was my need of the hour I'd go back to physical paper straight. This is lame marketing of an expensive lifeless product that aims to copy the dead tree. That's not what our new mediums are about.
Paper is just better than glowing screens for lots of perceptual tasks. No-flicker is better than flicker, too. Keep in mind that lots of our new mediums can be thought of as chaff in the way of reading the right good book.
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#65Terrible link, the actual reMarkable website is much better. It's a very niche device but I've owned mine for nearly two years and am a big advocate. In some ways, the first model was proof of concept. Excellent hardware and writing experience, but the early versions of the software were horrible, and the device itself is very ugly. The software has improved dramatically in the time I've owned it, going from horrible…
I'm going to give my old one to a friend and get the new one :) It's such a jank piece of hardware but I love it.
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#66> Hold it with your left hand and write with your right. Sorry, lefties. Well this sucks if it is not leftie friendly as the price and features had me sold.
The original was designed for both hands in the software. I think it's likely the new one will be as well, and any insinuation by the author otherwise is probably wrong.
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#67Is it worth it to buy just for reading purposes? I have a Kindle but a want bigger screen to read PDFs and web pages. Also, any integration with the Android app store?
I don't think it's that great for reading. It does not have a backlight. I own both the reMarkable and Kindle Paperwhite and I prefer to read books on the Kindle.
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#68> Hold it with your left hand and write with your right. Sorry, lefties. Well this sucks if it is not leftie friendly as the price and features had me sold.
wondering if that's just an assumption by the author -- can you not just rotate it 180°?
[On the original, you could not] rotate the device 180 and use it normally, but you could click a toggle in the settings which would reflect the UI laterally, for left-handed people.
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#69Terrible link, the actual reMarkable website is much better. It's a very niche device but I've owned mine for nearly two years and am a big advocate. In some ways, the first model was proof of concept. Excellent hardware and writing experience, but the early versions of the software were horrible, and the device itself is very ugly. The software has improved dramatically in the time I've owned it, going from horrible…
This, centum percentum! If 'papery' was my need of the hour I'd go back to physical paper straight. This is lame marketing of an expensive lifeless product that aims to copy the dead tree. That's not what our new mediums are about.
Are there any tablets that you've felt good writing on? I have a Galaxy Tab A (glassy surface) and I can tolerate drawing the occasional diagram on it. I haven't used its stylus at all after getting the first remarkable.
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#70I've had a Remarkable1 for about three months. It's one of the best investments I've made in a long time. Going to preorder this. Only caveats - I like aftermarket cases more than Remarkable's. I bought one one from Amazon for about 30$. Also I've been using staedtler's digital pencils, works great!
What makes it so good for you? Amazon reviews seem negative to middling.