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As others have said, pinch to zoom works now. Although that only helps to zoom in to one spot, if I were to try using that to read a page where the font is too

As others have said, pinch to zoom works now. Although that only helps to zoom in to one spot, if I were to try using that to read a page where the font is too small, having to shift the page left and right while zoomed, it would be a nightmare to read a document. My gripe is I cannot switch the device to show a PDF in landscape mode. Then at least pretty much all documents' fonts would be large enough, if I use the height of the device for the width of the PDF. Then I would only have to scroll down and only after reading half a page. That would work well, scrolling left-right-left-right-.... while zoomed in does not, unless the page has two columns of text so that I don't have to scroll right-left-.... I use my RM2 mostly as epub reader. For the price - I got the preorder discount - it was the same or even lower as other pure readers of a similar size. The software does have some weaknesses, for example sometimes I have to edit the epubs and remove some CSS background color because it ends up black on dark gray (unreadable of course), or it has set defaults for font, line height and such settings and I cannot set new defaults so I end up setting those for each and every document I sync to it anew. Still, it's acceptable for me, it's just a few (now muscle memory) clicks. To sync I sometimes have to start the Windows app to which I added a document a second time before it uploads it to the cloud server. That too now is a muscle-memory action. I hope they fix it some day but it's not a deal breaker. I did a bit of writing and that just works and feels very good too. Other than the base use cases the software is very barebone. As others have pointed out, that's a goal. The device does everything I expect from it, which is just some basic writing and the epub reading. I can send webpages to the device (while it's online) by clicking an extension icon in the browser, which I do for RoyalRoad chapters, for example. WebToEpub creates epub files for entire Webnovels, which have to be uploaded using the Windows app though.

vinni2 5y ago
For me main use case is reading research articles annotate on it and sync it with my desktop and share it with my colleagues. Ideally I wanted a bibliography library tool like mendeley or zotero and keep all my annotations and notes synced. But that is far from possible on any e-ink tablet so far I have tried.
- Terretta 5y ago
  I'd pay real money for something like LiquidText rethought for e-Ink.
- cycomanic 5y ago
  You can get reasonably close. You can use the zutilo extension for zotero which offers you a "move to tablet" option where you just point it to directory. I point it to a fuse mount of the remarkable. When zutilo moves the pdf to the tablet it removes it from the bibliography (just the pdf) and adds a special tag. At a later point you can do a fetch from tablet and zotero pulls back the paper from the tablet directory and extracts the annotations. This is also the biggest issue, because it can't extract text from your handwriting.

vinni2 5y ago

For me main use case is reading research articles annotate on it and sync it with my desktop and share it with my colleagues. Ideally I wanted a bibliography library tool like mendeley or zotero and keep all my annotations and notes synced. But that is far from possible on any e-ink tablet so far I have tried.

Terretta 5y ago
I'd pay real money for something like LiquidText rethought for e-Ink.
cycomanic 5y ago
You can get reasonably close. You can use the zutilo extension for zotero which offers you a "move to tablet" option where you just point it to directory. I point it to a fuse mount of the remarkable. When zutilo moves the pdf to the tablet it removes it from the bibliography (just the pdf) and adds a special tag. At a later point you can do a fetch from tablet and zotero pulls back the paper from the tablet directory and extracts the annotations. This is also the biggest issue, because it can't extract text from your handwriting.