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I have a feeling that reMarkable hired some remarkable hardware wizards with GPL in their blood and then let some beancounters ruin the frontend.

reMarkable is great looking hardware with subpar software.

I should not need to SSH into a device to install Koreader to get an acceptable ereading esperience.

I rarely use my reMarkable 2 much preferring an old Kobo HD for bedtime reading and the original 13 inch Sony dpt-rp1 for larger A4 texts.

As the article says: "If you are familiar with dedicated ebook readers, you will miss a dictionary, bookmarks and annotations. You can highlight parts of the text, but there is no index of annotations anywhere. This makes it unsuitable for some types of editing and annotated reading."

Surely those are not remarkable features to ask for?



All the marketing on the site is as a writing device.

I could imagine that the e-reader experience would be sub-par, which is a shame. (although I have yet to sideload any ebooks onto it).




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