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Comment by paulcole | Hacker News Reader

You’re likely going to find a reason to hate every suggestion anyone makes.

Look at the Kindle Scribe and Remarkable 2. Both are outstanding eink products. If you’re looking for an excellent device, buy one of those. If you’re looking to plant an ideological flag in the ground and hold out for the perfect device, good luck.

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Is Remarkable 2 decent for someone mainly interested in reading, and not in writing? Remarkable 1 was only so so in that area.

I have a Remarkable 2 and I would say is not that good at reading PDF documents or ebook files (mobi, & epub). Very slow at loading documents and moving forth and back between pages is worse when compared to a Kindle. Remarkable 2 strength is mainly focus on creating notes to read.

I had a remarkable 1 that I used primarily to read epub/pdf and my enduring memory was how slow it was to wsitch pages. Realise this is mostly a hardware limitation of the screen, but I found it frustrating. With some sadness I went to an iPad pro 12.9 which was very fast to switch pages, and I don't have that same sense of frustration.

Remarkable 2 is good enough for technical PDFs but is definitely not as good as the scribe head-to-head as a book reading device. But if a person insists on something “hackable” (god knows why) then the Remarkable is the better choice.

because koreader on a Remarkable 2 is really good, actually, and is probably not feeding my reading list into a marketing profile which may be purchased or subpoenaed at any time by an increasingly dystopian police state? Whereas a Kindle Scribe most definitely is?

Books about abortion, say, or being a queer teenager?

Right, like I said, if you have some ideological issue with the Scribe/Amazon, you’re going to be happier w/ the Remarkable. If you hate subscriptions, you’re going to find a reason to be mad about the Remarkable.

I own both Scribe and Remarkable 2. You couldn’t pay me to take notes on the Scribe or read ebooks on the Remarkable.

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