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Posted by MadaboutDana
Feb 23, 2018 at 08:57 AM
I have to humbly admit that I’m very much considering a reMarkable, not just for note taking but also for sketching and reading (I have around 2,000 e-books, not to mention wads of reference texts in PDF format). I agree about the screen issue - the thought of working on something like my Kindle fills me with pleasure.
I’m very interested that you’ve got one, Alexander. How’s the battery life?
Posted by Hugh
Feb 23, 2018 at 09:54 AM
Bill, I note the Ars Technica review of the reMarkable. (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/12/remarkable-tablet-review-the-high-price-of-getting-that-paper-feeling/)
Posted by MadaboutDana
Feb 23, 2018 at 10:06 AM
Thanks, Hugh. Yes, I’ve been reading lots of reviews trying to get a feel for this unusual hybrid. There are plenty of very good YouTube videos, too, giving what appears to be a fairly realistic impression of what it feels like to use a reMarkable (especially in terms of latency). It’s a lot of money to spend on something so niche, especially when a little more (okay, quite a lot more, now that the reMarkable price has been dropped) would get you an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil. But the e-paper concept appeals to me enormously, and watching people do advanced “pencil” sketches on it makes shivers go down my spine… I love sketching in pencil! And the existence of multiple layers makes the editing of drawings much, much easier. What I don’t know but could easily find out (actually, perhaps Alexander could tell me?) is if one can import other drawings/images into a specific layer? i.e. overlay multiple drawings?
Yours in temptation,
Bill
Posted by Chris Thompson
Feb 23, 2018 at 02:25 PM
I’d definitely be interested in your comments/experiences on the Remarkable as a PDF reader. There isn’t really a lot of detail on the website about how the software works.
In particular, are highlights made to a PDF stored back in the PDF itself, or are they stored in some kind of sidecar file? If the latter, do you have to manually export the highlights?
Is the resolution high enough so that 8 or 9 pt footnotes are readable without zooming? Also, I’ve read different things about the reading interface. For PDFs, is there a view that just displays the page with no interface elements, or are some sidebars always visible?
Posted by Graham Rhind
Feb 23, 2018 at 03:29 PM
Casting my mind back what feels like decades but is actually only about 10 years, and there was the iRex Digital Reader, which was a device somewhat bulkier than the ReMarkable but did basically the same thing. I had one and loved the idea of being able to read using e-ink, and to write on a paper-like surface. My work flow does not include enough pdfs to have made it a real necessity - it remained much quicker to use real pen and paper, and lugging those around were also less of a hassle - so it was just something I wanted to try out. I dropped it and the screen cracked, which cost an absolute fortune to replace, but my main concern is that the ReMarkable, ten years later, still has similar limited and clunky software. One would have thought that things would have moved on by now. Seeing that, and with my iRex experience, strangely, I have no desire to buy or even try the current incarnation of the ReMarkable, which, given my CRIMPing tendencies, says enough :-)
iRex, by the way, went bankrupt in 2010 ....