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Despite all the negative fuss about it - I love the Kindle Scribe. It feels and sounds like paper and works great for work note taking and journaling. Oh, and I

Despite all the negative fuss about it - I love the Kindle Scribe. It feels and sounds like paper and works great for work note taking and journaling. Oh, and I can read books on it too.

paulcole 3y ago
I’ve got both the Scribe and the Remarkable 2. The Scribe is the best ebook reader I’ve ever owned. Battery life is incredible. Great screen. Easy access to Amazon Kindle store (duh). It’s (at best) blah and frustrating for handwritten notes. The Remarkable 2 is amazing at handwritten notes and an atrocious ebook reader. To be fair it is advertised as a digital notebook and I find most people who hate it are like, “It’s bad at managing my collection of a billion ebooks and giant PDFs.” The differences on the handwriting front to me are that on the Remarkable 2: • The writing experience feels better and more paperlike to me • The OS and design are built around notetaking • More intuitive features and deeper options for writing (pen options, copy/paste, lasso, etc.) • Slower which doesn’t bother me for notes but is horrendous for reading books • Single use, which I prefer for lack of distraction Overall, I’m very glad to have both. The Remarkable 2 fits my work needs for hours of daily notes (and the occasional PDF markup) very very well and I just love reading books on the Scribe.
- gcr 3y ago
  Would putting koreader on the remarkable 2 resolve most of your concerns?
  - paulcole 3y ago
    They’re not concerns lol. I have a shitload of Amazon ebooks and I have a Scribe. I don’t want to futz with trying to force ebooks onto the Remarkable 2.
- fristys 3y ago
  That's great and all, but with the latest firmware the notetaking experience is great on the Scribe, and, at least in Europe, it's a fraction of the price of the Remarkable. And I don't have to pay a subscription
  - paulcole 3y ago
    I mean I’ve got both and have used both. I know which one has a great notetaking experience for me and which is at best mediocre. Also, I got grandfathered in to the Connect subscription but I think it’s mostly pointless for my use case.

Despite all the negative fuss about it - I love the Kindle Scribe. It feels and sounds like paper and works great for work note taking and journaling. Oh, and I can read books on it too.

paulcole 3y ago

I’ve got both the Scribe and the Remarkable 2. The Scribe is the best ebook reader I’ve ever owned. Battery life is incredible. Great screen. Easy access to Amazon Kindle store (duh). It’s (at best) blah and frustrating for handwritten notes. The Remarkable 2 is amazing at handwritten notes and an atrocious ebook reader. To be fair it is advertised as a digital notebook and I find most people who hate it are like, “It’s bad at managing my collection of a billion ebooks and giant PDFs.” The differences on the handwriting front to me are that on the Remarkable 2: • The writing experience feels better and more paperlike to me • The OS and design are built around notetaking • More intuitive features and deeper options for writing (pen options, copy/paste, lasso, etc.) • Slower which doesn’t bother me for notes but is horrendous for reading books • Single use, which I prefer for lack of distraction Overall, I’m very glad to have both. The Remarkable 2 fits my work needs for hours of daily notes (and the occasional PDF markup) very very well and I just love reading books on the Scribe.

gcr 3y ago
Would putting koreader on the remarkable 2 resolve most of your concerns?
- paulcole 3y ago
  They’re not concerns lol. I have a shitload of Amazon ebooks and I have a Scribe. I don’t want to futz with trying to force ebooks onto the Remarkable 2.
fristys 3y ago
That's great and all, but with the latest firmware the notetaking experience is great on the Scribe, and, at least in Europe, it's a fraction of the price of the Remarkable. And I don't have to pay a subscription
- paulcole 3y ago
  I mean I’ve got both and have used both. I know which one has a great notetaking experience for me and which is at best mediocre. Also, I got grandfathered in to the Connect subscription but I think it’s mostly pointless for my use case.