<story><title>ReMarkable tablet open source tools and hacks</title><url>https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jason_slack</author><text>&amp;gt; ReMarkable is sort of astonishingly expensive,&lt;p&gt;I have been contemplating buying a ReMarkable 2 as I prefer to handwrite everything&amp;#x2F;annotate&amp;#x2F;. The price tag is a bit hefty given the cost of an iPad and pencil and the zillion other things it does.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m curious if you are indeed going to buy one?</text></item><item><author>myself248</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been looking for an e-ink tablet that I can bend to my will, but the Kindle hacking scene seems to have peaked around 2012 and it&amp;#x27;s a desolate wasteland of dead links now. That&amp;#x27;s a shame, because the hardware is really cheap.&lt;p&gt;ReMarkable is sort of astonishingly expensive, but that would be justified if these &amp;quot;hacks&amp;quot; were officially supported or at least acknowledged enough that some future firmware update wouldn&amp;#x27;t ruin any workflow I build with them.&lt;p&gt;Is there any hint of such acknowledgment, or would I be risking $448 on a device that might turn itself into a paperweight?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Arainach</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve had mine for 4-6 weeks now.  I&amp;#x27;m not returning it, but I can&amp;#x27;t particularly recommend it - both the annotation and eReading experiences are significantly inferior to what you&amp;#x27;d get with Onenote, Notability, or Drawboard on iPad&amp;#x2F;Surface.&lt;p&gt;The reMarkable hardware is nice, but its stock software is frankly disappointing.  The hackability is a &amp;quot;plus&amp;quot;, but I don&amp;#x27;t want to have to resort to unsupported firmware tweaks to fix a $500 device.&lt;p&gt;Specific feedback:&lt;p&gt;* Zooming is incredibly coarse.  There is no pinch zoom, only a button in the UI that jumps in intervals of 100% or more.  On many of my documents it goes from slightly too small to WAY too big with no level in between&lt;p&gt;* Speaking of zooming, the pen controls overlay the document, often blocking parts of the text.  There is no way to scale the document to fit in the remaining space.  There&amp;#x27;s not even a way to have the button backgrounds be transparent so you could still read most of the text.&lt;p&gt;* It doesn&amp;#x27;t support in-document hyperlinks in PDF or ePub, so your table of contents and index are worthless.&lt;p&gt;* If you somehow know what page you want to jump to, that&amp;#x27;s buried two menus deep and frustrating to get to&lt;p&gt;* Search is very slow in large (100+ page) documents, and results trickle in gradually so you can never be quite sure when you&amp;#x27;re looking at the whole list.  Given that one of my desired uses for the device is to carry around some PDF textbook-style references, this hurts.&lt;p&gt;* You can&amp;#x27;t change the default writing utensil, so if you don&amp;#x27;t like the grainy mid-width pencil you have to change it every single time you open a new document&lt;p&gt;* There&amp;#x27;s no pressure sensitivity in the pen&lt;p&gt;* The eraser works like a pencil eraser, not a digital one.  There is no way to erase a stroke, so you&amp;#x27;ll inevitably erase more than you want to and have to redraw some of it</text></comment>
<story><title>ReMarkable tablet open source tools and hacks</title><url>https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jason_slack</author><text>&amp;gt; ReMarkable is sort of astonishingly expensive,&lt;p&gt;I have been contemplating buying a ReMarkable 2 as I prefer to handwrite everything&amp;#x2F;annotate&amp;#x2F;. The price tag is a bit hefty given the cost of an iPad and pencil and the zillion other things it does.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m curious if you are indeed going to buy one?</text></item><item><author>myself248</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been looking for an e-ink tablet that I can bend to my will, but the Kindle hacking scene seems to have peaked around 2012 and it&amp;#x27;s a desolate wasteland of dead links now. That&amp;#x27;s a shame, because the hardware is really cheap.&lt;p&gt;ReMarkable is sort of astonishingly expensive, but that would be justified if these &amp;quot;hacks&amp;quot; were officially supported or at least acknowledged enough that some future firmware update wouldn&amp;#x27;t ruin any workflow I build with them.&lt;p&gt;Is there any hint of such acknowledgment, or would I be risking $448 on a device that might turn itself into a paperweight?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dheera</author><text>I ended up going with a Boox tablet, mainly because it can run arbitrary Android apps. This means that among other things, installing the Kindle app turns it into a Kindle, and I can also install Dropbox, Google Drive, and Slack on it to transfer PDF sheet music and papers, among other things.</text></comment>