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I was seriously considering purchasing one, as it seems to tick off a lot of boxes for me, including hackability and a rather significant open-source enthusiast
by filoleg 6y ago
I was seriously considering purchasing one, as it seems to tick off a lot of boxes for me, including hackability and a rather significant open-source enthusiast community around it. The lack of a simple feature that is backlight killed it off for me though.
After using ebooks for the past decade, I cannot go back to using one without a backlight. I still use backlight at a bare minimum, but a complete lack of it seems like a serious oversight. Looking forward to remarkable v3, as I expect them to address this, given how simple and requested this feature is.
- dredmorbius 6y agoRecent Onyx BOOX user. Excellent and large displays, 10.3" and 13.3" (effectively A4). And Frontlight.
- disgruntledphd2 6y agoSo, I didn't realise it didn't have a backlight until it arrived. I would certainly have been more hesitant if I'd realised that. That being said, it's an absolutely amazing device, it really is digital paper. If you enjoy reading technical papers, it's totally worth it, I've read more papers in the two weeks since I got it than in the two months before. And the notetaking, oh the notetaking. I can now write notes much more easily, and they are automatically digitised so I can find them later, and on different devices. It's incredibly good, I suspect where I'll love it the most is for interviews, as it's much easier for me to write than it is to type (and feels much less rude also).