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Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by Almondsetat » Wed, Sep 04, 2024, 1:06 PM UTC

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…

If your notes are the kind that are written faster with a keyboard, you are not the target audience

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by mrzool » Wed, Sep 04, 2024, 1:06 PM UTC

layer8 wrote: post #68

mrzool wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Since when does e-ink have bad contrast?

Have you ever compared with actual printed paper?

Never, and I’m not even sure about the ratio — I just never noticed poor contrast on my old Kindle, which I’ve been using for the last 10 years or so.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by layer8 » Wed, Sep 04, 2024, 1:06 PM UTC

Rinzler89 wrote: post #86

layer8 wrote: post #74

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My reference point is physical paper.

You think e-ink has worst contrast than physical paper? How so?

I hold them side by side.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by criddell » Wed, Sep 04, 2024, 1:06 PM UTC

ducktective wrote: post #5

Is this suitable for reading technical pdf textbooks (math, programming, etc)? Last I checked the screen size was smaller than A4 and ReMarkable had a focus on writing and taking notes rather than displaying books... So any suggestions here?

IMHO, it's too small for PDFs. If they offered an 13" / A4 / Letter sized version for a few hundred more, I'd buy it today. Instead I'm using a 13" iPad Pro which has different compromises.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by diggan » Wed, Sep 04, 2024, 1:06 PM UTC

bluGill wrote: post #82

Rinzler89 wrote: post #51

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This feels like something some Chinese company can put out at much cheaper price, just a barebones large e-ink tablet, for hackers and tinkerers, with some linux distro with touch support, unlocked bootloader and ssh, powered by a microcontroller with mainline linux support, no fancy apps, no cloud service and no subscription, where they just supply the HW and the community on GitHub builds the SW for it, a-la RPi.

You mean like the pine note? https://pine64.org/devices/pinenote/ The hardware is easy for China, but there is a lot of software that doesn't exist yet, or it exists but is too slow to be usable. If you want to work on that software, then the pinenote is a great deal, order one and get busing writing/optimizing code. If you want a tablet that works the ReMarkable has been around for years.

To be honest (and as a reMarkable 2 owner), the software side of reMarkable isn't a "out of this world" experience, it's basically "just enough" to do it's job but not more than that.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by Almondsetat » Wed, Sep 04, 2024, 1:07 PM UTC

paulcole wrote: post #49

hannasanarion wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

E-ink is not "paper feel". It's a super low-power display, it only consumes power when the content on it changes. Since it works by moving around physical pigment molecules inside little cells, the screen will continue showing the last thing that you put on it literally forever while consuming no power. I have an e-ink tablet, the Boox Note Air 3 C, when I use it as an ereader or notetaker the battery lasts for weeks…

> E-ink is not "paper feel". The paper-feel comes in large part from the physical part of the screen the pen touches not from the display itself.

The paper feel also refers to the viewing experience

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by vimsee » Wed, Sep 04, 2024, 1:08 PM UTC

I want to challenge the idea that drawing/writing on what feels like paper is subpar compared to a surface that have the pencil glide a bit more.

I always thought writing on paper is something we have to deal with because paper is.. well, the physical medium we always used because it is cheap to manufacture.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by pydubreucq » Wed, Sep 04, 2024, 1:08 PM UTC

Really interesting ! I have the old version and I've often thought it would be much better with colors.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by AlanYx » Wed, Sep 04, 2024, 1:09 PM UTC

mrzool wrote: post #63

layer8 wrote: post #38

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DC has even worse contrast than e-ink.

Since when does e-ink have bad contrast?

Depends what your reference is. E-ink displays without a lot of layers (especially Carta 1250) have pretty good contrast, on par with matte paper. Some devices with a thick frontlight layer and a Wacom layer and a touch layer are less impressive.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by rsolva » Wed, Sep 04, 2024, 1:09 PM UTC

xur17 wrote: post #57

Anyone that has one of these - does it work with Linux? From Googling it looks like at best it works via wine, but even that is questionable with the latest version. Pretty ready to buy, but this is a pretty big turn off.

I can access my RM2 with SSH via WiFi or USB-C, if that's what you mean. But the official reMarkable client is not available for Linux, which I find a bit odd, since it is a Qt-app and the founder of the company apparently is an avid linux user.

I have got it working via Wine, but it keeps breaking after updates. I do not use it often though, as I mostly just upload new files via the website.