Remarkable 2 Epub
Leanna Perr
I am the proud, and happy, owner of a reMarkable tablet. Wanting to try out it's eBook feature, I bought an eBook (epub), but ADE doesn't recognize my reMarkable, I've been able to load the eBook from the finder into the reMarkable app, but when I open the file the pages are all white in the app on my Mac, and the eBook won't even open on the tablet.
If you are a student that likes to take notes or perhaps write on pdfs and other papers, then perhaps you will get some use out of it - or you draw.... other than that there is nothing else that other tablets cant do and more.
I asked them to give me my money back and of course they would not, made every excuse under the sun. Im just waiting and hoping that the people that build this archaic monstrosity actually catch up with real technology! Then perhaps Ill find some use for it. In the meantime it stays in the box ..... unless someone wants to buy it from me?????
truth, I just verified, ADE and the RE:Markable are still not a thing... which is so sad. The capability to annotate directly on an epaper page is a vastly superior reading and writing experience when campared to glossy color displays. I'll ping RE:Markable and see what the hold up is. Adobe, do you have insight? Does your DRM prohibit annotation and screenshot? Is it a battery/processor thing?
Calibre works for managing epubs without the schmancy shackles of DRM. And personally I prefer PDF's in the same pagelayout as the print edition, like I get with academic journals, as the page refrences are the same as the original published document. This makes for more coherent citation and shared refrencing in my experience. Looking forward to being able to just carry my RE:Markable and not multiple epaper readers...
I bought the remarkable 2 this year and as you said, had high hopes. Not only i can not get a e-book on it but i can not even install their app on my worklaptop because of security issues. And the worst part - you dont get any response from them.
THnk you SO much (everybody). I downloaded the RDM revover, then converted the now PDFs back to ePUBs with Calibre and was tehn able tp drag the books across to my remarkable app on the laptop, which synced with the device. Yes, its B&W but I dont care about that. So happy with this outcome for travellng.
Even if I hope you've found a way to do it (before now I mean), I've found a quick fix today, regarding an epub I bought and needed to be opened through ADE. I hope it'll help people in the future too!
Just go on ADE, click right on the epub and select "Show file in Explorer" (or in Finder on mac). Then, you just have to drag and drop the file to your Remarkable Desktop App and Tadaah!
I bought the Onyx Note 3 two days ago for the specific purpose of using it as a reader for my Logos books, since it supports Android apps. I found two things pretty quickly: 1) I am really going to like writing on a reader-tablet like this, and 2) the tablet is very lacking in many other ways. Among them is the Logos app really doesn't work very well on it. The whole system seems unstable, lots of crashes and hangups, and it's only 2 days old. Other apps, like the Kindle app, also leave much to be desired.
So...I wanted to return this and buy a reMarkable instead, which gets great reviews and seems to be more "stable." But it only supports epub books. This is why I was asking the question, before returning the Onyx and buying the reMarkable.
So, if I can access certain books in my library it's a go. I don't need to access all the features, but if I'm reading in a few books, I really don't want to continue doing that on an LED screen. ReMarkable ordered, I can let you know how I like it when it arrives.
one thing to make it less tedious is to make the page size as large as possible and the font size as small as possible, and then you get more bang for your buck re the 100 pages limit. there's a thread on here somewhere about the process. will try to find it if no one else comments with it that has it handy.
If I recall correctly, one of our users created a utility to convert between EPUB and Logos. You might be better served taking a look at his utility. Message Jan Krohn, and see where he stands in his development cycle.
I actually lament that Zotero doesn't deal with digital book designs (epub, mobi,...) better - for example showing their symbol like pdf; ordering them, and so forth, however the Zotero biological system actually has so many more pluses than minuses that it's an easy decision for me
No, you don't. You own certain specified rights to the material as enumerated in the EULA, and the right is not permanent. Copying whole books is not included. (I'm not saying I support that, I'm telling you how I was told it works back when I thought I was buying the books.)
I'm also interested in a RM, ON, or similar tablet, and the ability to read docs other than PDF is important to me, so I'll be following real-world recs like this closely. (I'm finding many of the recs online are probably written by marketing people, not end-users....fake news...whoda thunk it.)
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Recently, there have been a bunch of well-known YouTube reviewers working with reMarkable to review the tablet. Since the tablet itself is already over 4 years old, that raised some questions with me and almost made me pass on getting one. But I bumped into a demo unit at a random store a few weeks ago, tried it for a few minutes, and changed my mind.
My main use case for getting the reMarkable 2 tablet was to take meeting notes, more specifically during zoom/teams/webex/... calls when I'm also sharing my screen, so taking notes on my laptop becomes tricky. Before the reMarkable I used paper notebooks, many many paper notebooks in fact, but the notes ultimately got lost over time if I did not digitize them.
The secondary use case was the ability to use Screen Share from the reMarkable tablet and draw diagrams during remote zoom sessions. Additionally, I'm always looking to reduce the number of devices I have in my house, so I also wanted to explore if the tablet could be a replacement for my Kindle.
As far as the first use case is concerned, I was impressed. Note taking on the tablet is nice, and the marker plus stylus mimics writing on paper closely, a much more enjoyable and accurate experience compared to using an iPad and Apple Pencil for example. Using the built-in eraser on the marker feels a bit weird, like you are damaging the tablet. It feels and sounds rough, but I'm sure it's okay.
Text conversion is also magical, it is extremely accurate in the few days I've been using it, especially compared to what I was seeing on my iPad. I assume this is because my writing on the iPad looks messier, so the conversion logic struggles a bit more.
So far, the reMarkable seems great for the note taking use case, as with anything I think your own consistent use, and forcibly making it part of your process, is what will ultimately prove its worth.
The Screen Share feature also works well. There is almost no input delay between drawing on the tablet and seeing the result on screen. This is a neat way to do custom presentations, or to dive deep into a specific customer scenario and draw it out.
I can see a bunch of other use cases for it, like maybe using it as a sort of light-board replacement for promotional videos etc. The tablet itself is e-ink based, so gray scale on the tablet itself. However, with Screen Share (and making notes, highlighting books, etc.), you can select color and it will show up correctly on your color monitor. You can also send your notes via email and get them on your computer that way, or share them with customers or colleagues.
My third use case was to see if the reMarkable could be a replacement for my ereader device. I read many books (technical and non-fiction only, i.e. typically with a lot of drawings/schemas) and prefer an actual physical book. I think some research has shown that reading on a screen lowers our comprehension of what we are reading, and I feel that in my personal experience, that is definitely true. Reading on my iPad or even iPhone feels very ephemeral, not a lot seems to stick, and to some extent that is still true for e-ink devices I feel. In any case, this is the use case I'm least convinced about when it comes to the reMarkable 2.
There are limited ebook settings on the reMarkable, but you can select a few different fonts and font sizes, and play with spacing and margins to make everything fit. By default, it does a decent job with epub books in my limited experience.
For PDFs, it is a bit more nuanced. I tried a few different white papers, and because of the mix of diagrams and text (often small text in how it is rendered on screen), you have to zoom and move a bit to make it work. This takes away a bit of the joy of the simple reading experience, in my humble opinion.
The ads and pictures (which you sometimes need for context) are stripped away, and what remains is the article for you to consume, and annotate if you want. Just like with PDFs, and even epub books, you can make notes and interact with the content.
For reading, however, I did find that the lack of contrast of the reMarkable display makes it tricky to read in non-optimal lighting conditions. Of course, the tablet has no front-lighting, but even in slightly dim environments, when reading a book or article becomes tasking on your eyes, more modern devices like a Kindle don't seem to suffer from this.
If your main use case is note taking, and you can make it a habit of using it consistently, I would say yes. If however your use cases are a bit more mixed, and you expect to also do a lot of reading on the device, especially on the go where you have less control over the environment and more specifically the lighting circumstances, I would test it out first.
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