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I've really been enjoying a remarkable tablet since I got it a few weeks ago. Great for taking notes, great for reading pdf's (and scribbling on them - which is

by gpm 6y ago

I've really been enjoying a remarkable tablet since I got it a few weeks ago. Great for taking notes, great for reading pdf's (and scribbling on them - which is surprisingly useful!), terrible for literally anything else.

krn 6y ago
> terrible for literally anything else I hope it will soon be the best e-reader on the market, thanks to KOReader[1]. [1] https://old.reddit.com/r/RemarkableTablet/comments/jsb3r7/koreader_on_the_rm2/ https://old.reddit.com/r/RemarkableTablet/comments/jsb3r7/ko...
- gpm 6y ago
  Hopefully, but I don't like counting features before they exist. A feature that does exist - and I maybe should have mentioned, is that one of my house mates finds it really useful for remote teaching, they screen share the remarkables screen to their students and use it as something like a blackboard.
rsfinn 6y ago
That does sound like a remarkable tablet. What's it called? (...oh, now I get it: <https://remarkable.com/ https://remarkable.com/>)
pklausler 6y ago
I love reMarkable 2 for note-taking, but the fact that internal links in PDFs cannot be traversed makes it a non-starter for me as a technical document reader.
ketamine__ 6y ago
Is it a good ebook reader if you're not a prolific note taker?
- gpm 6y ago
  It renders PDFs, let's you scale/move where on the screen the page is rendered, let's you flip through pages, let's you switch to a view of page thumbnails, let's you go to a page number, remembers the last page you were on. If you expect more from your ebook reader than that, it is not just because of software. As a sibling comment mentions that might be fixed soon. V1 had long since had support for third party apps. V2 is taking a bit of time (because controlling eink screens in weird) but will probably have third party apps support soon. At that point you will be able to use one of the well known open source ebook reading apps. Edit: And to be clear, all the third party app support is unofficial, the help menu on the tablet includes the ssh password for root, everything past that is just reverse engineering (it's a pretty typical linux system apart from the display).

by gpm 6y ago

krn 6y ago

> terrible for literally anything else I hope it will soon be the best e-reader on the market, thanks to KOReader[1]. [1] https://old.reddit.com/r/RemarkableTablet/comments/jsb3r7/koreader_on_the_rm2/ https://old.reddit.com/r/RemarkableTablet/comments/jsb3r7/ko...

gpm 6y ago
Hopefully, but I don't like counting features before they exist. A feature that does exist - and I maybe should have mentioned, is that one of my house mates finds it really useful for remote teaching, they screen share the remarkables screen to their students and use it as something like a blackboard.

rsfinn 6y ago

That does sound like a remarkable tablet. What's it called? (...oh, now I get it: <https://remarkable.com/ https://remarkable.com/>)

pklausler 6y ago

I love reMarkable 2 for note-taking, but the fact that internal links in PDFs cannot be traversed makes it a non-starter for me as a technical document reader.

ketamine__ 6y ago

Is it a good ebook reader if you're not a prolific note taker?

gpm 6y ago
It renders PDFs, let's you scale/move where on the screen the page is rendered, let's you flip through pages, let's you switch to a view of page thumbnails, let's you go to a page number, remembers the last page you were on. If you expect more from your ebook reader than that, it is not just because of software. As a sibling comment mentions that might be fixed soon. V1 had long since had support for third party apps. V2 is taking a bit of time (because controlling eink screens in weird) but will probably have third party apps support soon. At that point you will be able to use one of the well known open source ebook reading apps. Edit: And to be clear, all the third party app support is unofficial, the help menu on the tablet includes the ssh password for root, everything past that is just reverse engineering (it's a pretty typical linux system apart from the display).