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This is great! I've always wanted more hackable e-ink devices -- the Kindle is nice but it feels like there's so much unrealized potential of an e-ink screen.

andrepd 6y ago
The reMarkable is a pretty hackable eink device.
- ianai 6y ago
  I’ve read it’s basically a Linux box with an ssh server. Not read about running a DE/wm on it though.
- crooked-v 6y ago
  It suffers a lot from the low storage, which is enough to keep me from wanting one even as a consumer device, let alone to hack on it.
  - justarandomq 6y ago
    USD $ 450 (price) buys 72 reams of paper (amazon) which also requires a lot of storage :^)
- rahulroy 6y ago
  Unfortunately, it's only available in limited countries[1]. [1] https://support.remarkable.com/hc/en-us/articles/360002645938-Countries-we-ship-to https://support.remarkable.com/hc/en-us/articles/36000264593...
  - sn41 6y ago
    Yeah. Sucks that it does not ship to India. Feels like the 80s again, where you tell your relatives and friends to get one for you when they return from abroad. plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
  - scaladev 6y ago
    Kindle too, which doesn't stop me from using it in one of those "unsupported countries" for the past decade.
- sambroner 6y ago
  I’m pretty into the remarkable and run a Twitter account retweeting content. (@rehackable - inspired by the GitHub repo of the same name) The RM1 was pretty well modded, but the RM2 is currently somewhat stuck due to a missing frame buffer driver. Some good people are working hard on it though and it seems like it’ll be solved fairly soon. [0] [0] https://github.com/ddvk/remarkable2-framebuffer/ https://github.com/ddvk/remarkable2-framebuffer/
torvald 6y ago
Yeah, i imagine sitting out in the sun coding away. With modern laptops, you can't work even with a lamp behind you because of all the reflections.
- boogies 6y ago
  Anti-glare coatings help somewhat (eg. most flagship Thinkpads seem to ship with them, though there’s a glossy 4K display option presumably for content creation & consumption).
simonmales 6y ago
First I heard of Kindles having Linux installed on them, I'm too excited by hackable e-ink device. Seems like Kindles will have more legs than a dated iDevice. I've never owned a Kindle, are they priced below their pure hardware cost? If so they suddenly become very tempting. I don't know what I'm looking at but it looks like the current generation is around 50 Euros.
- gh02t 6y ago
  There's been a whole ecosystem of homebrew Kindle software on and off for a while, some of which add some nice functionality like a better PDF reader. Not sure about current status of efforts, but I played around with it a few years ago and it was reasonably lively back then. Amazon offers a "subsidized" version with some minimal ads that is $20 cheaper, that suggests to me that they are selling it at cost or at least near it. Incidentally, I kinda like the ads... they aren't intrusive (to me at least) and they have actually have given me some decent recommendations before.
  - powersnail 6y ago
    Keep the ads! At least they are book covers. The non-ad version has horrible lock screen images.
    - Stratoscope 6y ago
      Agreed, I've discovered a few interesting books thanks to the ads. And they are no more intrusive than the non-ad lock screens.
freeone3000 6y ago
You might be interested in Boox, https://www.boox.com/ https://www.boox.com/ . They run regular Android, so it's a fairly open dev environment. (Possibly even more standard than the reMarkable)
- godtoldmetodoit 6y ago
  I had put a order in for a RM2, then found out about Boox and their Note Air and decided to give it a try. Have had it for a few days now, and loving it. Went ahead and cancelled my RM2 order, the Boox seems to have the Remarkable beat in every category outside of the hardware look and supposedly it feels slightly nicer to write on, but I'm having 0 issues taking notes on the Boox Air.
- BHSPitMonkey 6y ago
  I've been interested in their products for a while, but don't wish to support a company that violates open source licenses proudly: https://old.reddit.com/r/Onyx_Boox/comments/hk7d5v/onyx_is_violating_the_linux_kernels_license/ https://old.reddit.com/r/Onyx_Boox/comments/hk7d5v/onyx_is_v...

andrepd 6y ago

The reMarkable is a pretty hackable eink device.

ianai 6y ago
I’ve read it’s basically a Linux box with an ssh server. Not read about running a DE/wm on it though.
crooked-v 6y ago
It suffers a lot from the low storage, which is enough to keep me from wanting one even as a consumer device, let alone to hack on it.
- justarandomq 6y ago
  USD $ 450 (price) buys 72 reams of paper (amazon) which also requires a lot of storage :^)
rahulroy 6y ago
Unfortunately, it's only available in limited countries[1]. [1] https://support.remarkable.com/hc/en-us/articles/360002645938-Countries-we-ship-to https://support.remarkable.com/hc/en-us/articles/36000264593...
- sn41 6y ago
  Yeah. Sucks that it does not ship to India. Feels like the 80s again, where you tell your relatives and friends to get one for you when they return from abroad. plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
- scaladev 6y ago
  Kindle too, which doesn't stop me from using it in one of those "unsupported countries" for the past decade.
sambroner 6y ago
I’m pretty into the remarkable and run a Twitter account retweeting content. (@rehackable - inspired by the GitHub repo of the same name) The RM1 was pretty well modded, but the RM2 is currently somewhat stuck due to a missing frame buffer driver. Some good people are working hard on it though and it seems like it’ll be solved fairly soon. [0] [0] https://github.com/ddvk/remarkable2-framebuffer/ https://github.com/ddvk/remarkable2-framebuffer/

torvald 6y ago

Yeah, i imagine sitting out in the sun coding away. With modern laptops, you can't work even with a lamp behind you because of all the reflections.

boogies 6y ago
Anti-glare coatings help somewhat (eg. most flagship Thinkpads seem to ship with them, though there’s a glossy 4K display option presumably for content creation & consumption).

simonmales 6y ago

First I heard of Kindles having Linux installed on them, I'm too excited by hackable e-ink device. Seems like Kindles will have more legs than a dated iDevice. I've never owned a Kindle, are they priced below their pure hardware cost? If so they suddenly become very tempting. I don't know what I'm looking at but it looks like the current generation is around 50 Euros.

gh02t 6y ago
There's been a whole ecosystem of homebrew Kindle software on and off for a while, some of which add some nice functionality like a better PDF reader. Not sure about current status of efforts, but I played around with it a few years ago and it was reasonably lively back then. Amazon offers a "subsidized" version with some minimal ads that is $20 cheaper, that suggests to me that they are selling it at cost or at least near it. Incidentally, I kinda like the ads... they aren't intrusive (to me at least) and they have actually have given me some decent recommendations before.
- powersnail 6y ago
  Keep the ads! At least they are book covers. The non-ad version has horrible lock screen images.
  - Stratoscope 6y ago
    Agreed, I've discovered a few interesting books thanks to the ads. And they are no more intrusive than the non-ad lock screens.

freeone3000 6y ago

You might be interested in Boox, https://www.boox.com/ https://www.boox.com/ . They run regular Android, so it's a fairly open dev environment. (Possibly even more standard than the reMarkable)

godtoldmetodoit 6y ago
I had put a order in for a RM2, then found out about Boox and their Note Air and decided to give it a try. Have had it for a few days now, and loving it. Went ahead and cancelled my RM2 order, the Boox seems to have the Remarkable beat in every category outside of the hardware look and supposedly it feels slightly nicer to write on, but I'm having 0 issues taking notes on the Boox Air.
BHSPitMonkey 6y ago
I've been interested in their products for a while, but don't wish to support a company that violates open source licenses proudly: https://old.reddit.com/r/Onyx_Boox/comments/hk7d5v/onyx_is_violating_the_linux_kernels_license/ https://old.reddit.com/r/Onyx_Boox/comments/hk7d5v/onyx_is_v...