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I have been using it since November (second preorder wave). Pros: The e-ink display is great, large enough to show one page of any pdf. The device is light. Ta

by effyx 9y ago

I have been using it since November (second preorder wave). Pros: The e-ink display is great, large enough to show one page of any pdf. The device is light. Taking notes feels good. Battery life is great for reading books, good for taking notes. Cons: Price. In-house cloud storage that you must use (there is a beta setting enabling some weird tunnel over usb, have not tried it yet ...). Apps you must use in order to transfer document onto device (Windows, iOS, Android only). All your documents are automatically backed up and synced once you are on a wi-fi, whether you like it or not. No apps ... there is not even a web browser and there is no way of installing anything. Because the controls are on the bottom, the reading experience is not as good as with Kindle. Round pencil tends to roll around. Many of the cons are software related and could be fixed. But there is no way of telling, whether they will be fixed. At the end of the day, I do not regret getting it.

ptman 9y ago
There is a linux app, but the link was taken away from https://remarkable.engineering/ https://remarkable.engineering/ . You can download it from https://remarkable.engineering/remarkable-linux-client-0.0.5-16-1408-g7eca2b66.tgz https://remarkable.engineering/remarkable-linux-client-0.0.5...
- sdfojlkjaew 9y ago
  This client only works with some version of Debian. I am using flatpak https://flathub.org/apps/ https://flathub.org/apps/ and it works (flatpak run com.remarkable.reMarkable ) It takes about 400Mb since it downloads many libraries.
beezle 9y ago
Same group as you. I primarily use it for reading. Just want to group together a few response to you and others about my experience: -battery life has been fine, especially when used mostly as a reader. -no web browser/apps is actually a plus to many who are focused on reading or creative things as they are a distraction. LCD tablets fulfill that need fine. -no swiping on docs is ok by me - less marks from dirty paws -refresh rates in my use are not 'one or two seconds.' I think people tend to exaggerate wait times in general. A page flip is probably about half a second when reading Reviews of Modern Physics -I've only had one crash/reboot. -The latest software seems a bit snappier and has some improvements when it comes to pen use settings -No issues while annotating pdfs -its a little bit slow refreshing the document lists/library but we are talking a second, maybe second and half worst case -I understand why they are using cloud, though its not really important to me (syncing docs across multiple devices). Likewise, nothing I have is super confidential so that again is not (yet) a big concern to me -the zoom feature is a little bit clunky and can be improved -I would like a future iteration to include a backlight -Any future version should also be slightly larger, perhaps 1x1.5. This would likely enable viewing of letter size docs without the need to crop the margins. That said, its only a minor inconvenience to crop things like journals so they are viewable without the need to zoom -Some ask for handwriting recognition though I think first (and easier) would be some type of option to do version control on modified documents. -A fair price is probably closer to $450 but have to remember this is hardware version 1 All in all, I am pretty happy with the device and hope they continue to improve the software. Were a second generation to be released, I would consider upgrading if it had a backlight and faster cpu/memory combo. [edit for clarity]

by effyx 9y ago

ptman 9y ago

There is a linux app, but the link was taken away from https://remarkable.engineering/ https://remarkable.engineering/ . You can download it from https://remarkable.engineering/remarkable-linux-client-0.0.5-16-1408-g7eca2b66.tgz https://remarkable.engineering/remarkable-linux-client-0.0.5...

sdfojlkjaew 9y ago
This client only works with some version of Debian. I am using flatpak https://flathub.org/apps/ https://flathub.org/apps/ and it works (flatpak run com.remarkable.reMarkable ) It takes about 400Mb since it downloads many libraries.

beezle 9y ago

Same group as you. I primarily use it for reading. Just want to group together a few response to you and others about my experience: -battery life has been fine, especially when used mostly as a reader. -no web browser/apps is actually a plus to many who are focused on reading or creative things as they are a distraction. LCD tablets fulfill that need fine. -no swiping on docs is ok by me - less marks from dirty paws -refresh rates in my use are not 'one or two seconds.' I think people tend to exaggerate wait times in general. A page flip is probably about half a second when reading Reviews of Modern Physics -I've only had one crash/reboot. -The latest software seems a bit snappier and has some improvements when it comes to pen use settings -No issues while annotating pdfs -its a little bit slow refreshing the document lists/library but we are talking a second, maybe second and half worst case -I understand why they are using cloud, though its not really important to me (syncing docs across multiple devices). Likewise, nothing I have is super confidential so that again is not (yet) a big concern to me -the zoom feature is a little bit clunky and can be improved -I would like a future iteration to include a backlight -Any future version should also be slightly larger, perhaps 1x1.5. This would likely enable viewing of letter size docs without the need to crop the margins. That said, its only a minor inconvenience to crop things like journals so they are viewable without the need to zoom -Some ask for handwriting recognition though I think first (and easier) would be some type of option to do version control on modified documents. -A fair price is probably closer to $450 but have to remember this is hardware version 1 All in all, I am pretty happy with the device and hope they continue to improve the software. Were a second generation to be released, I would consider upgrading if it had a backlight and faster cpu/memory combo. [edit for clarity]