I looked at these when it was in the first version. But didn't think it was ready yet.
My partner saw someone using one the other day and when looking they have brang or version 2.
Does anyone have one?
Are they worth it?
Do you use it as much as you thought or is it under a pile of junk now?
Thanks
Does anyone have one?
Yes
Are they worth it?
No
My partner saw someone…
Did she see an ad on Facebook and want you to buy it?
My partner saw someone using one IRL.
Doesn't want me to buy one but though it might suit me with all the paper notes i have laying around. Not knowing i had already looked at them previously.
I thought they were and are restricted but pending use case might still be ok.
I had a Boox (similar concept I guess). I used it a lot to mark up student essays and read academic papers… until COVID hit and we moved to Google docs. I haven't used it much except as a giant Kindle. I have just bought a folding touch laptop and a pen for it. Best of both worlds as I can draw directly on documents- I do a lot of writing feedback via Zoom and recorded video, and being able to hand-annotate in those formats has been a game changer to that side of my workflow- not possible on a separate tablet device.
If you just want a notebook that isn't single use, go for a Rocketbook instead. I also have a couple of those and they are great (when I remember to put them in my work bag). You write on them with those frixion pens and wipe them off with a damp cloth. You can take a photo of the pages and they are stored in Google drive or anywhere else you set up.
I have a surface pro 6 with pen but don't know if it would work like the remarkable does with note keeping s scribbling, moving etc.
Don't really want another device but if they were great I'd reconsider.
I have both the remarkable 2 and kindle scribe.
The remarkable is made for notetaking and it's probably the best e-ink tablet for that. However, because it's so specialised it's a pretty crap e-reader and is useless at anything else. It does allow marking up PDF's a lot better than the scribe though.
The scribe is like an oversized kindle, it is heavy and the notebook sections are just tacked on. They are updating firmware every now and then to put on new features but it's still miles behind the remarkable. It's also annoying having the only way to put files on there via the kindle app or email through docs, which then sometimes selects them as ebooks which means you cannot annotate them (because it treats it like a paid book). If you like the kindle app though then at least you will enjoy your books in there and it does have a backlight which is handy.
Remarkable you're able to write on any PDF pretty much and then email the end result somewhere. It's also open source based, so you don't have to use the subscription to access your files, I integrate to onedrive to transfer files, there's a web interface/SSH terminal, and I can use a number of third party apps to install custom templates (so far not possible on the scribe). The writing experience is better on the remarkable, the feel is better but it does wear out nibs quickly. I can also say that the remarkable and scribe use the same tech (same as wacom) so the stylus works on each other though the scribe has an extra button (can be programmed on the remarkable with some programming knowhow). The nibs are also interchangeable.
I have given the scribe to the other half to use, and she pretty much just uses it as an e-reader. The remarkable works better for my workflow as I use it to take notes and then PDF and store it to save paper.
this person had a good summary for prospective buyers