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You should try a ReMarkable. I love mine for reading and marking PDFs, especially work related and note taking. It's one of the few things I backed as a KickStarter that has come along massively since it first began. The 2nd version looks great also.

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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?

They have a 30-day free return period if you don't like it.

It's a Norwegian product AFAIK, and the company officially sells it to EU/EEA/CH markets on their website.

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.

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?

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.

Comments below indicate people's shock at the price: $1500.

ReMarkable isn't cheap either: $400

Well, I don't know. A decent tablet goes for $300. I could see myself paying +33% for significantly increased battery life. On mobile devices, the screen eats most of the battery charge, therefore also contributing most to the battery's degredation over years. An e-ink tablet could potentially last much longer.

It's not cheap but for me the added productivity of so many notes and being able to read long pdf documents comfortably makes it well with it.

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