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Re:E Ink smart screen puts a newspaper on your wall by _ph_ on Friday April 10, 2020 @08:49AM (#22832491)
I have been eying the remarkable. I would literally like to try it, but I am not aware of any German shops carrying it. I am very hesitant to order an expensive gadget I might not like.

As you have one: what is the basis for sharing documents? I would mostly be using it as an ebook reader, how do you upload ebooks, what formats are supported?

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Re:E Ink smart screen puts a newspaper on your wall by notpeter on Friday April 10, 2020 @10:35AM (#22833410)
Remarkable is direct-only I believe, but they do have a 30day return policy.

As for the software/sharing, they have desktop (Win, Mac, Linux), Android and iOS apps and their own cloud hosted service for syncing documents, inks, ebooks, etc amongst your devices and the tablet. The apps are a little clunky (due to cross platform widgets) but you can quickly export a PDF of a drawing or drag in an ebook (PDF/ePUB) and it'll auto sync to your device.

P.S. The device itself is quite hacker friendly, it supports SSH over USB out of the box and they've shared their cross-compliation toolchain.

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Re:E Ink smart screen puts a newspaper on your wall by _ph_ on Friday April 10, 2020 @02:19PM (#22835831)
Now you have me interested, what happens when you ssh into it, does it run a shell? Do you know about the programmability and can you give me some pointers?
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Re:E Ink smart screen puts a newspaper on your wall by net4all on Friday April 10, 2020 @03:24PM (#22836454)
Yup. I own one and have tested to ssh but not actually done much yet. It runs Linux and a shell. These are a good start:

https://remarkablewiki.com/tech/start https://remarkablewiki.com/tips/start https://github.com/reMarkable

I should add that this is a relatively open platform. It runs Linux, there is an official GitHub org with code.

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Re:E Ink smart screen puts a newspaper on your wall by vinay427 on Friday April 10, 2020 @10:34AM (#22833397)
It's a Norwegian product AFAIK, and the company officially sells it to EU/EEA/CH markets on their website.
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Re:E Ink smart screen puts a newspaper on your wall by jmilloy on Friday April 10, 2020 @10:30AM (#22833356)
They have a 30-day free return period if you don't like it.
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