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I have the Kindle DX, the original(ish) large eReader and it's slow enough to be pretty useless at reading tech docs - which is why I bought it. I'd love to be

I have the Kindle DX, the original(ish) large eReader and it's slow enough to be pretty useless at reading tech docs - which is why I bought it. I'd love to be able to walk into a shop and try the Remarkable or similar out. I couldn't give a stuff about writing (though it's a nice secondary feature) - I do however want to be able to throw a tech manual at my e-Reader (say, an O'Reilly programming manual) and be able to flip through it back and forth easily like you can on a tablet. The Remarkable looks beautiful in the link, but gives absolutely no indication as to whether that long-standing core flaw in e-readers has been solved here, which is very, very unreassuring.

disgruntledphd2 6y ago
To be fair, learning.oreilly.com is pretty good on iPad (not so much on mobile). It's pretty expensive, but potentially worth it if you read a lot of technical books.
- mellosouls 6y ago
  Sure, but the whole point of using ereaders compared to tablets (like iPad) is the screen which tablets can't compare with for pure reading. But eReaders don't traditionally have remotely comparable UX performance so are only suitable for linear reads like novels. My question is whether Remarkable have solved that. It's far more important to me and similar potential users than the writing/whatever stuff they are selling on the webpage linked.
  - disgruntledphd2 6y ago
    Ah I see. For me, the writing on a screen is enough, I take a lot of notes in meetings, and having these digitised would be incredibly useful for me. Additionally, being able to annotate PDFs would also prove great for me, I don't want to print out large amounts of paper, but I would like to take notes.
eddiecalzone 6y ago
I use 'briss' to trim PDF margins from a laptop, then send to a Kobo Forma (8-inch 4x3 screen) and read using the open source 'koreader', which also works with Remarkable. I was reading on an iPad mini before (same exact screen size), but that's collecting dust now. I expect with the Remarkable's 10.3-inch display you wouldn't even need to trim margins.
- mellosouls 6y ago
  Yes - but my interest is in the UX responsiveness, the whole point of the bigger screen size is to fit them on without stuff like Briss (which I've used before); the issue is not screen fit, but performance when browsing back and forth - tech manuals are not linear reads like novels, for which kindles etc are ideal.

disgruntledphd2 6y ago

To be fair, learning.oreilly.com is pretty good on iPad (not so much on mobile). It's pretty expensive, but potentially worth it if you read a lot of technical books.

mellosouls 6y ago
Sure, but the whole point of using ereaders compared to tablets (like iPad) is the screen which tablets can't compare with for pure reading. But eReaders don't traditionally have remotely comparable UX performance so are only suitable for linear reads like novels. My question is whether Remarkable have solved that. It's far more important to me and similar potential users than the writing/whatever stuff they are selling on the webpage linked.
- disgruntledphd2 6y ago
  Ah I see. For me, the writing on a screen is enough, I take a lot of notes in meetings, and having these digitised would be incredibly useful for me. Additionally, being able to annotate PDFs would also prove great for me, I don't want to print out large amounts of paper, but I would like to take notes.

eddiecalzone 6y ago

I use 'briss' to trim PDF margins from a laptop, then send to a Kobo Forma (8-inch 4x3 screen) and read using the open source 'koreader', which also works with Remarkable. I was reading on an iPad mini before (same exact screen size), but that's collecting dust now. I expect with the Remarkable's 10.3-inch display you wouldn't even need to trim margins.

mellosouls 6y ago
Yes - but my interest is in the UX responsiveness, the whole point of the bigger screen size is to fit them on without stuff like Briss (which I've used before); the issue is not screen fit, but performance when browsing back and forth - tech manuals are not linear reads like novels, for which kindles etc are ideal.