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Remarkable 2 is better, because of the features it doesn't have. The best feature of Remarkable 2 is how quiet it is, it doesn't do anything except for Book re

Remarkable 2 is better, because of the features it doesn't have. The best feature of Remarkable 2 is how quiet it is, it doesn't do anything except for Book reading and note taking. No notifications, no messaging, no email, quiet tech.

wraptile 5y ago
You can turn these all off. Lack of features is not a feature imho - no mather how hard people try to sell this.
- m12k 5y ago
  Twitter exists because you can't write long posts. Snapchat exists because you can't view past messages. Tinder exists because you can't just talk to anyone unless they are interested in you too. Limitations and missing "features" absolutely can be an asset to a platform.
  - dahfizz 5y ago
    To a platform, sure. Limiting what other people can do can shape how a social platform works. For a piece of hardware, not so much.
  - wraptile 5y ago
    You're comparing apples to oranges - those are social networks where multiple people have to come to some sort of consensus, having rules over that consensus sure, can be a feature. I don't need anyone to agree with me to turn off notifications.
    - m12k 5y ago
      Devices with notifications are little skinner boxes for our brains. There's perfectly valid reasons for people to want a device where notifications are not even an option, just like there's valid reasons for alcoholics to not want booze in the house. If that's not an issue for you - congratulations, those devices are not designed for you. But please don't deny others them, just because you don't think they should exist - they absolutely should.
      - emsy 5y ago
        Nobody said the Remarkable shouldn't exist. The question was whether the lack of a feature that can be disabled is a feature, which it isn't. You know what else doesn't send notifications and doesn't even need a battery? Paper.
        ABCLAW 5y ago
        >The question was whether the lack of a feature that can be disabled is a feature, which it isn't. It is, though, and examples have been provided of VERY successful platforms built upon this negative space. Consider the lack of a feature as a feature itself; it lowers the amount of cognitive brainpower required to use the system, and that is VERY valuable.
        teucris 5y ago
        I’m of two minds on this one. Starting without notifications as an option in my devices would help me tremendously in my day to day life. But that’s just me. There are so many different brains out there. How does a company make a product that sells to a sufficiently wide market to make it worthwhile? The only option I see is… options. User-specific customization.
        vineyardmike 5y ago
        > Starting without notifications as an option in my devices would help me tremendously in my day to day life. Incredibly good for mental health. > The only option I see is… options. User-specific customization. You can SSH into a remarkable tablet and do whatever you want to it. > How does a company make a product that sells to a sufficiently wide market to make it worthwhile? It is very expensive. Its only purpose is to be a digital notebook.
        teucris 5y ago
        I wasn’t referring to this product specifically, but electronics in general.
- leecarraher 5y ago
  In my opinion it's a great deal more complex than: "you can just turn off the features". To me "lack-of-a-feature" is not in itself a feature of the device or platform, rather a feature of the company who makes the device or platform. It signals that the manufacturer is fully committed to solving a specific use case. Avoiding feature creep is tough though. Companies need to make money, and the easiest way to do that is to exploit your current customers to upgrade. However, because no one upgrades a device without a reason, it may be inevitable that companies continue to follow the classic: phone -> phablet -> tablet -> basically laptop without a keyboard progression.
- SantalBlush 5y ago
  >You can turn these all off. In many cases, you can't. Turning off popups and reminders is a constant battle with my hardware. Duolingo is about to murder me if I don't resume my language practice.
- vineyardmike 5y ago
  No you're wrong. Its absolutely a selling point. When i got my remarkable i did what i do with any other tech, start searching the menus and features and trying things out. What i immediately discovered... theres nothing to do! Until you start writing, or you have something to read, the device is useless. I got mine for XMas, and a week earlier i bought myself an ipad pro to use as a digital notebook. Unboxing it and using it day one and i was immediately struct by the quiet tech that it is. Its unlike anything else i've used in a long time. Get an ipad and theres endless apps and accounts and notifications and a shiny bright screen begging for you to play with it. The ipad really wants to be your computer with a stylus attached, and that is great, i take it traveling instead of anything else and its really convenient. The remarkable is NOT a computer. The remarkable sits at my desk and is just ready for me, while the ipad is eternally charging, or chiming, or begging for attention and distraction. I can't have it at my desk while i work. The remarkable is literally a digital notebook and has about as much utility as a real notebook - a lot for writing and reading and almost 0 for anything else. It is honestly the first product i've used that actually replaces paper at my desk.
  - wenc 5y ago
    I have an old iPad Air that I don’t link to my main Apple ID. It has no apps except for the minimum needed to function as an ebook reader and scratchpad. It’s pretty distraction free. I would say if you’re willing to run your tablet under its potential it’s possible to have a quiet device. I ordered a Remarkable 2 but canceled once I realized I had an old iPad lying around. It works for me.
    - vineyardmike 5y ago
      > It works for me. Thats really what matters. I will say one big thing for me is the light and flashing and stuff. Humans are naturally evolved to be attracted to quick moving and bright things. Bright electronic screens totally hit that, and for me any sort of screen in my periphery completely distracts me. So a device without a light makes a big difference.
  - goosedragons 5y ago
- black_puppydog 5y ago
  It must be great to live a life in perfect control of your impulses. Alas, as a mere human, being able to turn off all notifications, also means I can turn them back on when I get bored with what I'm doing. Purposefully putting myself in a situation where any dopamine rush is more than a click away is one of the best feelings I've had in years. So yeah, I'd consider that a feature.
rchaud 5y ago
What 'loud' tech did you see on the linked page? Everything was about reading and writing.
- mbar84 5y ago
  I think he means it in a metaphorical sense. Anything that grabs attention is "LOUD" in this sense (just as is ALL CAPS writing).
- fredoliveira 5y ago
  Not gp, but the app store and matebook syncing in particular jump out to me as going beyond reading and writing. Not that I disagree with their inclusion necessarily (I'm sure they put in whatever made sense in their ecosystem), but it won't be for everyone.
falcolas 5y ago
> Remarkable 2 is better, because of the features it doesn't have. Like syncing local notes using common cloud services? Technically, the feature's there, but it's locked behind a $100 per year "service". Rant aside, I have an iPad mini where I turned all notifications off. Just as good as if it didn't have those features when I don't care about them - but if I need them they're right there.
- karamanolev 5y ago
  I have a Remarkable 2. I cannot describe how much I love the writing experience on it. I don't think any other standard tablet has ever come close to that. I also feel like you for the paid Connect account, which I work around using open source tools that you're free to run on it. You can SSH as root easily and run whatever you want. I do it frequently for screen sharing.
  - chx 5y ago
    I always find funny how people gush over the Remarkable especially the writing aspect. I for one find the lack of progress astonishing. Because, you know, if you wanted great writing experience you could've used a CrossPad ... 25 years ago. You write on a notebook -- with a quality pen manufactured by Cross as the name suggests -- the CrossPad records it as vector strokes. Done. In 25 years the progress we got is there's a screen now but that's all. The device still can't do, say, offline OCR or indeed anything useful beyond what the CrossPad used to do.
    - karamanolev 5y ago
      I have contemplated a more fully-functional device, but I don't get the need for OCR - I can type way more accurately on my keyboard than I can write. By a lot. Anyway... I've had other devices with pens, but never really used them. I got the Remarkable for my wife and it really compels me to use it, but not with any features, just the writing aspect. I can't tell you whether it's the texture, the screen or something else, but it just does. I admit the same could happen with other E Ink writing devices like the Onyx Max Lumi 2, but I don't have any of them to confirm.
fluidcruft 5y ago
Has PDF annotation improved on Remarkable 2? Otherwise it's trival to disable notifications, messaging, email etc (at least on Boox and there are quite good youtube tutorials about how to do this), so that's not a particularly strong differentiation. "You can have any color you want as long as it's black" only works as a selling point if other cars can't be black.
- jonfw 5y ago
  "You can have any color you want as long as it's black" isn't the selling point. The selling point is- "This car was designed to be black, and looks better in black than other cars." It's like how my screwdriver is significantly better at driving screws than my swiss army knife. Purposeful design drives a better experience
  - fluidcruft 5y ago
    In this case it doesn't. PDF is vastly superior on other devices.
paulcole 5y ago
I was skeptical because of the cost, but it's honestly been a hugely valuable investment for my work. I don't even turn wifi on and don't care about syncing. All I want is something I enjoy using to write notes throughout the day, sketch out ideas, and organize my day. Yes, there's a trillion other tools, software, apps, paper notebooks, whatever that I could use to do this. The point for me is that I didn't use those things. I do use the Remarkable and I love it.
- caleb-allen 5y ago
  Same. I use pretty much every feature of the remarkable 2. My favorite product in a decade
linsomniac 5y ago
Does the Remarkable 2 have "templates" for pages? A couple years ago I went from a largely "paperless" life to using a daily planner, largely for my daily work and personal TODO lists, and have found the process very valuable. I toyed around with making a custom template for my daily notes/lists, and using the RocketBook ecosystem (maybe with just my own printed templates and using their app for scanning), but in the end just stuck with pre-printed planner books. I'm just getting ready to order my third planner, and this topic comes up and tempts me with a technological solution to a largely solved problem, but makes me wonder what benefits it might have.
- funksta 5y ago
  Out of curiousity, which planner do you use and which feature(s)/layouts are the most useful for you? I've started building custom pdf planners for these eInk devices (I'm an rM2 owner myself) and am always looking for insight on how people use them. Have a little website setup for this at https://hyperpaper.me https://hyperpaper.me
  - linsomniac 5y ago
    My use is still evolving, but mostly I use it for daily "TODO" lists for both work and personal. Secondary I use it for notes about the day. Both are basically disposable, and my "what I did" I type into a notes file on the computer for future reference and searching. The planner I find quite valuable to let me flip to a page in the future and write down a "todo" to do in a few days or weeks. The TODO lists I mark with Done, Won't Do, or Rescheduled for the future. That process is valuable, if I push something off too many times, I evaluate if I really need to do it. I started with the Panda Planner Pro, but I ended up finding the personal and reflective things more onerous than useful. So once I filled up the first one I moved to the Amazon Basics Daily Planner ( https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B078GVYRZG/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B078GVYRZG/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b... ), which I mostly like. I like having two days of todos at once, because I can just see more that way. I'd probably be just as happy to have 3-4 todo columns per 2 pages, 5 would be convenient but probably too small. I'm considering the Clever Fox Pro for the next one, but it's $40 while it has a nice week view, it probably doesn't have enough todo entries, I really need a good 10-15 per day. Maybe I just need a week todo, with daily "priorities". That would probably be ideal. I'd like to try the "timeslots" where I plan out my todo a bit more with times, but that may or may not work.
asiachick 5y ago
No Kindle app = Not useful to me. Do either of these support kindle?
- shagie 5y ago
  There is no kindle app directly. You can go through a conversion process to convert from .kfx to .epub and then read those on (at least) the remarkable. https://www.isummersoft.com/transfer-kindle-to-remarkable-tablet/ https://www.isummersoft.com/transfer-kindle-to-remarkable-ta...
- zwayhowder 5y ago
  Boox devices run Android, so you can install the Kindle app from the play store.
yumraj 5y ago
> No notifications, no messaging, no email, quiet tech. Also, no spyware..
- ct0 5y ago
  thinking the same thing. how damaging to the brand that once I hear Huawei, I think of spyware.
  - 908B64B197 5y ago
    Spyware and cheap knockoffs. Also rampant IP theft [0]. As they say, chabuduo! [1] [0] https://blogs.cisco.com/news/huawei-and-ciscos-source-code-correcting-the-record https://blogs.cisco.com/news/huawei-and-ciscos-source-code-c... [1] https://mothership.sg/2018/05/what-is-chabuduo/ https://mothership.sg/2018/05/what-is-chabuduo/
    - vachina 5y ago
      HN cannot seem to decide whether to hate or love IP protection.
  - deleted 5y ago
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  - xster 5y ago
    are there concrete cases you're thinking about?
    - tragictrash 5y ago
      It's china. They have been caught putting chips in servers to infiltrate US companies. It's everywhere. The CCP takes what the CCP wants. If you work for one of these companies like Huawei, or Boox or whatever, when the Chinese government asks you to do something nefarious, you comply because you want to keep existing. They ain't asking.
      - 5y ago
UncleOxidant 5y ago
Is there an Overdrive app for the Remarkable 2? I want to be able to checkout and read library books.
- stonogo 5y ago
  Overdrive was bought by Rakuten, owners of Kobo. I'd predict that you're not going to see Overdrive apps on non-Kobo ereaders, unless they have access to Google Play.
vineyardmike 5y ago
Also eInk means that the display doesn't have a backlight, which means it doesn't catch your eye and steal your attention. +1 feature missing that makes it better.
- microtherion 5y ago
  Isn't what the Boox Max Lumi & Co have a "Backlight" ? https://shop.boox.com/products/maxlumi2 https://shop.boox.com/products/maxlumi2 I found that this made a big usability improvement in low light situations over previous eInk readers I owned, and that in practice there were more low light situations (or at least situations where I'd rather not turn on a light just to read).
- BadJo0Jo0 5y ago
  Footnote 20-22 indicates it has a backlight. Which is honestly something I want just because I want to be able to read in a dark or low light room. Something which has kept me from buying a remarkable.
whoomp12342 5y ago
for $400????
m-p-3 5y ago
To be honest, I'd likely get one if I could read my work emails, check my calendar and keep myself up-to-date through my RSS feeds natively from it.
- paulcole 5y ago
  Remarkable is perhaps not clear enough that this isn't what they expect you to do with the Remarkable.
  - m-p-3 5y ago
    Perhaps it's not as remarkable as it claims to be.
    - paulcole 5y ago
      Perhaps it’s exactly what it claims to be? I think I’ve heard, “remarkably simple” used as a compliment more often than “remarkably complex.”
IncRnd 5y ago
Yep. I always think of spyware with Huawei now. However, I watched the clip that is partway down the page, and the song in that clip made me stop and listen. It is so relaxing to hear. Here is a direct link to the song in the video. [1] If anyone can tell me the artist's name, I'd be grateful. [1] https://consumer-img.huawei.com/content/dam/huawei-cbg-site/common/mkt/pdp/tablets/matepad-paper/video/huawei-matepad-paper-product-video-all.mp4#t=16 https://consumer-img.huawei.com/content/dam/huawei-cbg-site/... Edit: I found it through the lyrics. Olive Musique - Everything About You

wraptile 5y ago

You can turn these all off. Lack of features is not a feature imho - no mather how hard people try to sell this.

m12k 5y ago
Twitter exists because you can't write long posts. Snapchat exists because you can't view past messages. Tinder exists because you can't just talk to anyone unless they are interested in you too. Limitations and missing "features" absolutely can be an asset to a platform.
- dahfizz 5y ago
  To a platform, sure. Limiting what other people can do can shape how a social platform works. For a piece of hardware, not so much.
- wraptile 5y ago
  You're comparing apples to oranges - those are social networks where multiple people have to come to some sort of consensus, having rules over that consensus sure, can be a feature. I don't need anyone to agree with me to turn off notifications.
  - m12k 5y ago
    Devices with notifications are little skinner boxes for our brains. There's perfectly valid reasons for people to want a device where notifications are not even an option, just like there's valid reasons for alcoholics to not want booze in the house. If that's not an issue for you - congratulations, those devices are not designed for you. But please don't deny others them, just because you don't think they should exist - they absolutely should.
    - emsy 5y ago
      Nobody said the Remarkable shouldn't exist. The question was whether the lack of a feature that can be disabled is a feature, which it isn't. You know what else doesn't send notifications and doesn't even need a battery? Paper.
      - ABCLAW 5y ago
        >The question was whether the lack of a feature that can be disabled is a feature, which it isn't. It is, though, and examples have been provided of VERY successful platforms built upon this negative space. Consider the lack of a feature as a feature itself; it lowers the amount of cognitive brainpower required to use the system, and that is VERY valuable.
        teucris 5y ago
        I’m of two minds on this one. Starting without notifications as an option in my devices would help me tremendously in my day to day life. But that’s just me. There are so many different brains out there. How does a company make a product that sells to a sufficiently wide market to make it worthwhile? The only option I see is… options. User-specific customization.
        vineyardmike 5y ago
        > Starting without notifications as an option in my devices would help me tremendously in my day to day life. Incredibly good for mental health. > The only option I see is… options. User-specific customization. You can SSH into a remarkable tablet and do whatever you want to it. > How does a company make a product that sells to a sufficiently wide market to make it worthwhile? It is very expensive. Its only purpose is to be a digital notebook.
        teucris 5y ago
        I wasn’t referring to this product specifically, but electronics in general.
leecarraher 5y ago
In my opinion it's a great deal more complex than: "you can just turn off the features". To me "lack-of-a-feature" is not in itself a feature of the device or platform, rather a feature of the company who makes the device or platform. It signals that the manufacturer is fully committed to solving a specific use case. Avoiding feature creep is tough though. Companies need to make money, and the easiest way to do that is to exploit your current customers to upgrade. However, because no one upgrades a device without a reason, it may be inevitable that companies continue to follow the classic: phone -> phablet -> tablet -> basically laptop without a keyboard progression.
SantalBlush 5y ago
>You can turn these all off. In many cases, you can't. Turning off popups and reminders is a constant battle with my hardware. Duolingo is about to murder me if I don't resume my language practice.
vineyardmike 5y ago
No you're wrong. Its absolutely a selling point. When i got my remarkable i did what i do with any other tech, start searching the menus and features and trying things out. What i immediately discovered... theres nothing to do! Until you start writing, or you have something to read, the device is useless. I got mine for XMas, and a week earlier i bought myself an ipad pro to use as a digital notebook. Unboxing it and using it day one and i was immediately struct by the quiet tech that it is. Its unlike anything else i've used in a long time. Get an ipad and theres endless apps and accounts and notifications and a shiny bright screen begging for you to play with it. The ipad really wants to be your computer with a stylus attached, and that is great, i take it traveling instead of anything else and its really convenient. The remarkable is NOT a computer. The remarkable sits at my desk and is just ready for me, while the ipad is eternally charging, or chiming, or begging for attention and distraction. I can't have it at my desk while i work. The remarkable is literally a digital notebook and has about as much utility as a real notebook - a lot for writing and reading and almost 0 for anything else. It is honestly the first product i've used that actually replaces paper at my desk.
- wenc 5y ago
  I have an old iPad Air that I don’t link to my main Apple ID. It has no apps except for the minimum needed to function as an ebook reader and scratchpad. It’s pretty distraction free. I would say if you’re willing to run your tablet under its potential it’s possible to have a quiet device. I ordered a Remarkable 2 but canceled once I realized I had an old iPad lying around. It works for me.
  - vineyardmike 5y ago
    > It works for me. Thats really what matters. I will say one big thing for me is the light and flashing and stuff. Humans are naturally evolved to be attracted to quick moving and bright things. Bright electronic screens totally hit that, and for me any sort of screen in my periphery completely distracts me. So a device without a light makes a big difference.
- goosedragons 5y ago
black_puppydog 5y ago
It must be great to live a life in perfect control of your impulses. Alas, as a mere human, being able to turn off all notifications, also means I can turn them back on when I get bored with what I'm doing. Purposefully putting myself in a situation where any dopamine rush is more than a click away is one of the best feelings I've had in years. So yeah, I'd consider that a feature.

rchaud 5y ago

What 'loud' tech did you see on the linked page? Everything was about reading and writing.

mbar84 5y ago
I think he means it in a metaphorical sense. Anything that grabs attention is "LOUD" in this sense (just as is ALL CAPS writing).
fredoliveira 5y ago
Not gp, but the app store and matebook syncing in particular jump out to me as going beyond reading and writing. Not that I disagree with their inclusion necessarily (I'm sure they put in whatever made sense in their ecosystem), but it won't be for everyone.

falcolas 5y ago

> Remarkable 2 is better, because of the features it doesn't have. Like syncing local notes using common cloud services? Technically, the feature's there, but it's locked behind a $100 per year "service". Rant aside, I have an iPad mini where I turned all notifications off. Just as good as if it didn't have those features when I don't care about them - but if I need them they're right there.

karamanolev 5y ago
I have a Remarkable 2. I cannot describe how much I love the writing experience on it. I don't think any other standard tablet has ever come close to that. I also feel like you for the paid Connect account, which I work around using open source tools that you're free to run on it. You can SSH as root easily and run whatever you want. I do it frequently for screen sharing.
- chx 5y ago
  I always find funny how people gush over the Remarkable especially the writing aspect. I for one find the lack of progress astonishing. Because, you know, if you wanted great writing experience you could've used a CrossPad ... 25 years ago. You write on a notebook -- with a quality pen manufactured by Cross as the name suggests -- the CrossPad records it as vector strokes. Done. In 25 years the progress we got is there's a screen now but that's all. The device still can't do, say, offline OCR or indeed anything useful beyond what the CrossPad used to do.
  - karamanolev 5y ago
    I have contemplated a more fully-functional device, but I don't get the need for OCR - I can type way more accurately on my keyboard than I can write. By a lot. Anyway... I've had other devices with pens, but never really used them. I got the Remarkable for my wife and it really compels me to use it, but not with any features, just the writing aspect. I can't tell you whether it's the texture, the screen or something else, but it just does. I admit the same could happen with other E Ink writing devices like the Onyx Max Lumi 2, but I don't have any of them to confirm.

fluidcruft 5y ago

Has PDF annotation improved on Remarkable 2? Otherwise it's trival to disable notifications, messaging, email etc (at least on Boox and there are quite good youtube tutorials about how to do this), so that's not a particularly strong differentiation. "You can have any color you want as long as it's black" only works as a selling point if other cars can't be black.

jonfw 5y ago
"You can have any color you want as long as it's black" isn't the selling point. The selling point is- "This car was designed to be black, and looks better in black than other cars." It's like how my screwdriver is significantly better at driving screws than my swiss army knife. Purposeful design drives a better experience
- fluidcruft 5y ago
  In this case it doesn't. PDF is vastly superior on other devices.

paulcole 5y ago

I was skeptical because of the cost, but it's honestly been a hugely valuable investment for my work. I don't even turn wifi on and don't care about syncing. All I want is something I enjoy using to write notes throughout the day, sketch out ideas, and organize my day. Yes, there's a trillion other tools, software, apps, paper notebooks, whatever that I could use to do this. The point for me is that I didn't use those things. I do use the Remarkable and I love it.

caleb-allen 5y ago
Same. I use pretty much every feature of the remarkable 2. My favorite product in a decade

linsomniac 5y ago

Does the Remarkable 2 have "templates" for pages? A couple years ago I went from a largely "paperless" life to using a daily planner, largely for my daily work and personal TODO lists, and have found the process very valuable. I toyed around with making a custom template for my daily notes/lists, and using the RocketBook ecosystem (maybe with just my own printed templates and using their app for scanning), but in the end just stuck with pre-printed planner books. I'm just getting ready to order my third planner, and this topic comes up and tempts me with a technological solution to a largely solved problem, but makes me wonder what benefits it might have.

funksta 5y ago
Out of curiousity, which planner do you use and which feature(s)/layouts are the most useful for you? I've started building custom pdf planners for these eInk devices (I'm an rM2 owner myself) and am always looking for insight on how people use them. Have a little website setup for this at https://hyperpaper.me https://hyperpaper.me
- linsomniac 5y ago
  My use is still evolving, but mostly I use it for daily "TODO" lists for both work and personal. Secondary I use it for notes about the day. Both are basically disposable, and my "what I did" I type into a notes file on the computer for future reference and searching. The planner I find quite valuable to let me flip to a page in the future and write down a "todo" to do in a few days or weeks. The TODO lists I mark with Done, Won't Do, or Rescheduled for the future. That process is valuable, if I push something off too many times, I evaluate if I really need to do it. I started with the Panda Planner Pro, but I ended up finding the personal and reflective things more onerous than useful. So once I filled up the first one I moved to the Amazon Basics Daily Planner ( https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B078GVYRZG/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B078GVYRZG/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b... ), which I mostly like. I like having two days of todos at once, because I can just see more that way. I'd probably be just as happy to have 3-4 todo columns per 2 pages, 5 would be convenient but probably too small. I'm considering the Clever Fox Pro for the next one, but it's $40 while it has a nice week view, it probably doesn't have enough todo entries, I really need a good 10-15 per day. Maybe I just need a week todo, with daily "priorities". That would probably be ideal. I'd like to try the "timeslots" where I plan out my todo a bit more with times, but that may or may not work.

asiachick 5y ago

No Kindle app = Not useful to me. Do either of these support kindle?

shagie 5y ago
There is no kindle app directly. You can go through a conversion process to convert from .kfx to .epub and then read those on (at least) the remarkable. https://www.isummersoft.com/transfer-kindle-to-remarkable-tablet/ https://www.isummersoft.com/transfer-kindle-to-remarkable-ta...
zwayhowder 5y ago
Boox devices run Android, so you can install the Kindle app from the play store.

yumraj 5y ago

> No notifications, no messaging, no email, quiet tech. Also, no spyware..

ct0 5y ago
thinking the same thing. how damaging to the brand that once I hear Huawei, I think of spyware.
- 908B64B197 5y ago
  Spyware and cheap knockoffs. Also rampant IP theft [0]. As they say, chabuduo! [1] [0] https://blogs.cisco.com/news/huawei-and-ciscos-source-code-correcting-the-record https://blogs.cisco.com/news/huawei-and-ciscos-source-code-c... [1] https://mothership.sg/2018/05/what-is-chabuduo/ https://mothership.sg/2018/05/what-is-chabuduo/
  - vachina 5y ago
    HN cannot seem to decide whether to hate or love IP protection.
- deleted 5y ago
  [deleted]
- xster 5y ago
  are there concrete cases you're thinking about?
  - tragictrash 5y ago
    It's china. They have been caught putting chips in servers to infiltrate US companies. It's everywhere. The CCP takes what the CCP wants. If you work for one of these companies like Huawei, or Boox or whatever, when the Chinese government asks you to do something nefarious, you comply because you want to keep existing. They ain't asking.
    - 5y ago

UncleOxidant 5y ago

Is there an Overdrive app for the Remarkable 2? I want to be able to checkout and read library books.

stonogo 5y ago
Overdrive was bought by Rakuten, owners of Kobo. I'd predict that you're not going to see Overdrive apps on non-Kobo ereaders, unless they have access to Google Play.

vineyardmike 5y ago

Also eInk means that the display doesn't have a backlight, which means it doesn't catch your eye and steal your attention. +1 feature missing that makes it better.

microtherion 5y ago
Isn't what the Boox Max Lumi & Co have a "Backlight" ? https://shop.boox.com/products/maxlumi2 https://shop.boox.com/products/maxlumi2 I found that this made a big usability improvement in low light situations over previous eInk readers I owned, and that in practice there were more low light situations (or at least situations where I'd rather not turn on a light just to read).
BadJo0Jo0 5y ago
Footnote 20-22 indicates it has a backlight. Which is honestly something I want just because I want to be able to read in a dark or low light room. Something which has kept me from buying a remarkable.

whoomp12342 5y ago

for $400????

m-p-3 5y ago

To be honest, I'd likely get one if I could read my work emails, check my calendar and keep myself up-to-date through my RSS feeds natively from it.

paulcole 5y ago
Remarkable is perhaps not clear enough that this isn't what they expect you to do with the Remarkable.
- m-p-3 5y ago
  Perhaps it's not as remarkable as it claims to be.
  - paulcole 5y ago
    Perhaps it’s exactly what it claims to be? I think I’ve heard, “remarkably simple” used as a compliment more often than “remarkably complex.”

IncRnd 5y ago

Yep. I always think of spyware with Huawei now. However, I watched the clip that is partway down the page, and the song in that clip made me stop and listen. It is so relaxing to hear. Here is a direct link to the song in the video. [1] If anyone can tell me the artist's name, I'd be grateful. [1] https://consumer-img.huawei.com/content/dam/huawei-cbg-site/common/mkt/pdp/tablets/matepad-paper/video/huawei-matepad-paper-product-video-all.mp4#t=16 https://consumer-img.huawei.com/content/dam/huawei-cbg-site/... Edit: I found it through the lyrics. Olive Musique - Everything About You