Do you have to use a separate device to convert the webpage to pdf then import via cloud to scribe?
I get the impression this is what you’d have to do with remarkable and that’s a faff
Recommendation Tablet thingy you can write and draw on and add text etc
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I get the impression this is what you’d have to do with remarkable and that’s a faff
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
I'd be tempted by the remarkable and pick up a Kindle Fire next for more general tablet duties next Amazon have a sale - they are crazy good value.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Do you need the Pro model though?
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
Yeah. I open up the webpage on my phone, the Guardian crossword has a download to pdf option above it so I click that and then open it on the Kindle app on my phone. (Iirc). The crossword is then waiting for me on my Scribe.
Not really a hassle and takes moments tbh.
Ditto any other pdf's. There's a few ways to get them on the Kindle, none are especially onerous.
It is probably one more step than on an iPad, but it's not that much of one.
Kindles have traditionally been a bit rubbish for pdfs due to screen size, but the Scribe has big screen (roughly a big hardback book? A5?) So a pdf from an academic journal is more or less actual size and even textbooks come out reasonably ime.
No I’d get an Air (that was just a pros and cons pro that autocorrected).
Just tried one out in the Apple shop. Unconvinced. It wasn’t a pleasant experience writing with the pen- it felt clunky.
Will try out the re:markable- boys Dad has one.
Thanks mate
Throbbing Angel
this is no longer a place of honour
Yeah - I hate the Apple Pencil on glass experience. Lil'Angel loves it. You can get slightly rough screen protectors that make it feel like you're writing on paper, though. I also don't like the shape of Apple pencils and find them difficult to hold easily.
I have a Samsung S6 Lite (android) that also can be used to read Kindle books, came with a pen(cil) and the case for less than the base iPad. However, I find the iPad easier to use as they invested so much in the UX side of things. I use an Android phone and have for years and was expecting to like the S6 Lite much more than I do. In fact, I hardly use it whereas the iPad gets used daily I reckon.
I'd get a different brand of Pencil if I were you, preferably one that's easy to hold.
YMMV, though
ohmyliver
poppin' like a cork
Seconded, use it daily for drawing, and dad-no noodling around with iOS drum machines/synths/samplers. There isn't really much competition, and I say this as someone who has had Android phones since the HTC Desire, and had a Surface Pro 4 (which I wouldn't have got if I had got an iPad before hand).
I've always brought my apple pencils second hand, as you can get them about 50-60% of the price if you're lucky. Although you have to be really careful about fakes. I brought an Apple Pencil 2 via ebay late last year, and it was a very impressive fake, right down to the case and documents in the case. It didn't pair correctly, and it had Chinese script, rather than a serial number visible in the inner rim of the space exposed when you unscrewed the nib. Other than that, identical.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
When the time comes to replace the tablet and Chromebook I'll probably look at something like this they sound a great travel device.
Throbbing Angel
this is no longer a place of honour
editor
hiraethified
Duet is bloody fantastic.
If you want the best and can afford it just get iPad.
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
E ink is so much nicer on the eyes, I have a million pdfs but fuck I hate reading them on standard tablets or desktops
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
It's had some useful updates on the note-taking side since then too.
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
I missed this the first time round, but I have an iPad Pro and also a reMarkable and the remarkable is wayyy better for any sort of pen antics. It is just so much nicer to write on than even the iPad with high friction screen film. If I want to scribble on a pdf I absolutely prefer the remarkable. The battery is also in another league due to the low power of the e-ink screen. I've sold several people on it (if only I hadn't somehow invalidated myself from the referral scheme :/)
On the other hand as noted it doesn't have other functions, though they are adding some typing capability. And it is not colour, though you can use pens which do export as colour (say, a highlighter that shows as yellow if you export as pdf).
On the other hand as noted it doesn't have other functions, though they are adding some typing capability. And it is not colour, though you can use pens which do export as colour (say, a highlighter that shows as yellow if you export as pdf).
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
This reminds me that I managed to liquid damage the usb-c port and need to send it off for repair because I miss it so much 
She mentioned that she might want to watch telly on it….
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