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I'm curious: how does Amazon's foray into this sector affect anyone's feelings? Do people want a single-purpose device like this, or would they rather have a multi-purpose Kindle (or iPad, with more functionality but much less battery life)?

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It makes me cheer more for Remarkable. I hate that big tech can use their muscles/money to just bleed competition dry, and then end up with the majority of the market share and us customers are worse off.

The big differentiator in these products is drawing latency. Currently there's only two with barely acceptable level IMO: Remarkable 2 and Supernote a5x/a6x, both around 30ms.

I can't find any numbers for the Kindle Scribe so I guess no one has tested yet. But I also bet if Amazon was proud of the number they'd be shouting about it - especially if it was better than the others.

So Remarkable and Supernote are probably fine for another generation at least.

Huawei MatePad Paper is under 30

the iPad Pro gets to around 9ms perceived latency by using a very interesting trick. Essentially, it predicts the direction the pencil is moving and generates a short straight line in that direction. After the pencil has moved on, it corrects the line to follow the actual path the pencil took. I wonder if the e-ink companies could do that?

i remember reading that backlight on eink tablet compromises writing experience, which was why Supernote didn't add it. I can believe that as backlight probaly requires an extra layer between the writing surface and the sensing surface. Seeing that Amazon Scribe has backlight I imagine they prioritized e-reading vs e-writing, which is understandable because Kindle.

This is all pure speculation though.

I do have Supernote and the writing is as good as it gets for me paper-wise, my brain is fooled into thinking I am proofreading text printed on paper, which was all i wanted from that device.

When I got my Remarkable I thought I'd be using it to read books and put lots of books on it, but actually I've ended up only using it to take notes. I often read books on another device, then take notes on the Remarkable at the same time.

I have tablets (colour display, android/iOS) and a Kindle.

As far as reading is concerned there is no comparison, the kindle wins on nearly every metric.

I just wish they would offer a kindle with a 10" display.

I will probably get the kindle scribe once it has been out for a bit, has good reviews and a software update.

I own an rm2 and love it. However, I also love my Kindle and if I had to choose I'd choose the Kindle.

When my Kindle (or RM) dies, I'll almost certainly replace it with the new writable Kindle, especially as I assume it's backlit which I feel is something really missing from the RM.

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