reMarkable - ePaper tablet..

[rowan]

One thing that I found mildly annoying with any ePaper thing is that dust & stuff lands on the screen whilst you are using it, blocking bits of the letters with the same kind of irritation dead pixels on a LCD cause. Since there's no natural action of turning a page, it doesn't "self-clean".
Also brushing your hand across it adds grease or whatever so that's out.

It seems that after every few minutes of use I need to spend time cleaning it gently and that detracts from the reading experience for me.

[RiK]

Mine arrived this morning and initial impressions are very good. I realise the software is very definitely a 1.0 release and there are lots of little niggles, but they're mostly trivial little things which I'm confident will get patched in a .1 update sooner or later..

The important thing is that the experience of writing on the device is excellent. Exceeded my expectations there so I'm very happy about that!

Initial things I'd like to see sorted:

1) Doesn't remember the pen settings when changing pages / notebooks etc. Biggest frustration right now

2) Need to be able to load your own templates

3) Would like to be able to sort templates, place them in folders and / or tag some favourites

4) When editing in landscape mode, it only rotates the GUI, exported images are not rotated.

5) Would be nice to automatically reconnect to known WIFI without switching manually

6) Needs support for following links in PDF files etc. as currently, a pain when trying to navigate long documents

7) I'd expect a bookmark to mark individual pages in a long document, not just the document itself

[Little stoned kiwi]

Can you hack them? As in tinkering under the hood with Linux.
I read that it runs Linux, which isn't the important point to me.

[Misfit]

Mine arrived this morning and initial impressions are very good. I realise the software is very definitely a 1.0 release and there are lots of little niggles, but they're mostly trivial little things which I'm confident will get patched in a .1 update sooner or later..

Excellent news. Glad you're impressed. Was waiting on your comments.

Slightly annoyed I didn't take the risk, but I have no real use case other than it would be cool. Sadly it's way out of impulse buy at release price though. £608 delivered (without folio case).

Did you get stung for any customs? I think I read they had an EU based distributor.

[RiK]

Excellent news. Glad you're impressed. Was waiting on your comments.

They've totally nailed the feel of the pen on the surface and the writing experience is spot on.

Yes, when you watch a video you can see a slight lag, but in practice you don't feel it when writing. It was the key thing I was interested in, and the fact is, I don’t have to change my normal writing speed to use it and that’s the main thing.

Excuse my crappy writing, but you get the idle… (it's 1080/60 so watch full screen)



Shame the screen is pale grey, not like the newer kindles, but that’s down to the digitiser layer. It’s nailed the feel though, it’s like a pencil or a fibre tip pen on paper

[noodles]

No eraser ?

[RiK]

No eraser ?

Not on the pen, no. icon option to erase with the pen, by marked area or whole screen...

[RiK]

Easy enough to ssh into it as root, and the templates are regular .png files.

Splendid. Cleared out all the ones I didn't need, added a few of my own, 1000x more useful already.

[defsdoor]

https://gizmodo.com/the-remarkable-e-in ... 1822612517

[RiK]

https://gizmodo.com/the-remarkable-e-ink-tablet-is-way-too-good-for-its-sof-1822612517

Can't really disagree with anything they're saying there. At full price it is very expensive, but I only paid half that as a pre-order.

The writing experience is absolutely spot on, but yes, currently the software is very limited. The recent update did address some of the early niggles though and I'm a lot happier since then.

Two main issues remaining for me are:

1) The lack of basic sorting within notes. You can't insert or move pages in an existing document (you can only add blank pages to the end), I mean come on guys, linked lists are coding 101 right?

2) If you annotate a PDF, then export the file, they've lost all the original PDF structure and simply exported every page as an image, the resulting files are *huge* often hundreds of meg and you can no longer copy text or search within the document etc. That's just sloppy beyond belief, especially given PDF supports annotations as standard.

Even so. It has totally replaced all my paper notebooks. I've used the rM for all my note taking since mid-november now, and can't imagine going back to a paper notebook for daily notes any more.

[noodles]

I'd be fascinated to try and develop a strategy game like civilization lite or a hex wargame on such a platform.
The lack of fast scrolling doesn't really matter with those games. The aesthetics could be gorgeous I'm sure (Mac 1 style).
The only problem is the small number of users... They really need to bring down the cost of eink screens.

Since Amazon removed the keyboard+mouse interface after the Kindle 3, the possibility for 2D strategy gaming (other than chess maybe) on these screens
has been removed. A pity.

[Misfit]

A big new updated just out according to my email. Better PDF handling and the big one, handwriting to text conversion.

Still using your's Rik? Let us know what the update is like please if you are...

https://blog.remarkable.com/big-softwar ... a0256c2cc4

[Deckard]

I would love a decent sized reader to sit outside and read all my comics and mags on in sunlight - Does that exist ?

[RiK]

Still using your's Rik? Let us know what the update is like please if you are...

Every day, I absolutely love it. Warts and all.
Other than necessity for forms etc. I've not actually written on paper in nearly a year.

Still waiting for the update on mine, but even without additional features I can't imagine not having it now.

If anyone is after one, you can use this referral code for a £75 discount..

[Misfit]

Still using your's Rik? Let us know what the update is like please if you are...

Every day, I absolutely love it. Warts and all.
Other than necessity for forms etc. I've not actually written on paper in nearly a year.

Still waiting for the update on mine, but even without additional features I can't imagine not having it now.

If anyone is after one, you can use this referral code for a £75 discount..

Thanks for the update and the code. If I do get one I'll be sure to use it as presumably you get something too.

Still wavering though. Even with the voucher, the price is just a bit too high for that impulse buy as I'm just not convinced I'll use it enough.

And as I wavered more yesterday with the update announcement I came across the Boox Note 10.3" eReader

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07 ... XKQ0&psc=1

eInk, good pen support with the plus it runs Android. Despite my loathing of Android, it is actually a plus as it does mean you can use things like the Kindle app which increases the possible use cases of the device. Obviously, most Android apps would be useless on it, but I have quite an investment in Kindle bought books and that does make it tempting...

I was hoping the iPad Pro 10.5 would be the answer as it gives you everything a good tablet does, plus good handwriting in a lovely package. But despite the Pencil being great, I've felt no desire to use the iPad as a bit of paper.