• ChristerMLB@piefed.social
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    2 days ago

    Being Norwegian it is my patriotic duty to shill for ReMarkable, it’s pretty good at being what it is.

    It’s expensive, though.

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      22 hours ago

      It’s more for note taking, annotation and drawing than purely reading ebooks though, the form factor alone would make it uncomfortable for long reading sessions I think

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        8 hours ago

        It hasn’t really been a problem for me, but I like having a big display, especially for pdfs or comics. It’s also been great for character sheets for roleplaying games - especially since they get synced to the cloud, so I can always pull them out on my phone if I forget the tablet.

        The interface, marketing and development all seem to be very focused on note taking and sketching, though. I’ve used it for drawing, but the exported files are kind of crap - IMO, the best way of exporting a drawing from ReMarkable is to lay the thing on a scanner. If you want high resolution, you zoom in on your drawing and scan it in pieces.

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      2 days ago

      Sorry but no. Abysmal hardware, shitty software that’s locked down AND crap when opened up, and horrid QA. Talking from experience.

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        2 days ago

        it is definitely too closed down, haven’t had those other experiences though, I’ve had my ReMarkable 2 for quite a few years now. Then again, I haven’t tried hacking at it

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          23 hours ago

          The hardware weakness is super obvious if you try to add any third party apps. Slow loading times, badly exposed pen API, among other things.