[m463]

I have a remarkable 2 and use it to read PDF and e-books. e-pub was slow, so I use PDF.

It doesn't have to phone home or use the cloud, which is sort of refreshing. I have never hooked it into any network or even bothered updating the software.

I use USB which becomes a network interface, then connect to http://10.11.99.1/ and drag/drop files. This is all local.

No built-in lighting, but it works great with a reading lamp or in sunlight.

It replaces a book in my lap and is just for reading books. Sometimes I use it while exercising on treadmill, and with the big screen and large type it works great.

only nit, is sometimes swipe when turning pages is ignored and I have to do it a couple of times. (Maybe it is sleeping and needs to be woken?)

[overnight5349]

I would suggest either updating the software or installing KoReader.

The most recent official firmware has a much nicer UI, but is incompatible with homebrew at the moment.

KoReader is much, much nicer to use, as it's designed specifically for e-readers. It has no annotation or pen support, but the reading features are so much better than the stock software. I typically have it set to dual-column in landscape mode, I find it more comfortable to read with the gigantic screen.

Plus KoReader works with Calibre to manage your library over the network. It's really quite pleasant once you get it working

[LoganDark]

> remarkable 2

Fun fact, you can hook this up to your computer and use it as a drawing tablet, maybe I should open-source my plugin for this :)

> only nit, is sometimes swipe when turning pages is ignored and I have to do it a couple of times. (Maybe it is sleeping and needs to be woken?)

It's an issue with how you do the gesture, I have the most luck doing it around 60% down the screen, from one edge to the other, and waiting for the screen to finish refreshing before doing anything else.

[hahn-kev]

Your comment about the gesture made me laugh. It reminded me of when Jobs said that people were holding the iPhone incorrectly for antenna gate

[LoganDark]

I mean it's sort of true! I'm not sure exactly which heuristics reMarkable is using but they seem not to work super well. I have the same issue on the rM2 unless I do like a Perfect High-Quality Swipe, so it's apparently important. Though, IMHO, waiting for the screen to finish refreshing is the most important part.

[schwartzworld]

Epub is basically just html, so it being slow on remarkable is pretty damning for the device.

[hahn-kev]

It really depends on how large the book is. I believe that when you first open the book the remarkable has to render all the pages, that way the page content doesn't drift as you navigate between pages like on a normal e reader, but you can't do that with something that you annotate based on pages and location on the page.

[goosedragons]

I believe it converts ePubs to PDF and so doing things like adjusting the font size requires rerendering the whole document.