I'm tempted to do just this, but I don't really need the extra capacity just yet. I might wait for a few people to perfect the technique. I hope there's going to be a write-up of the different attempts on the remarkable wiki [1]
Since the remarkable has a micro USB port, does anyone know if it supports OTG devices?
It's such an awesome device. 90% of its awesomeness comes from the fact that they respect the GPLv3 license and give you root access to it trough ssh out-of-the-box (random password and requires activating it).
If I get enough time on my hands, I'm probably going to port postmarketOS on it.
It does. You can connect USB flash drive for e.g. You have to ssh and manually mount the drive though. Unfortunately, the existing xochitl app doesn't seem to show additional mounts. However, you can write your own scripts/code to take advantage of it.
The OS has udev and systemd support and it's very easy to cross compile code with arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc. I was able to build static binaries of packages with just the following option:
./configure --target=arm-linux-gnueabi --host=arm-linux-gnueabi --build=x86_64-linux CFLAGS="-static"
make LDFLAGS="-static"
You have low level access to buttons, framebuffer, touch events etc as well. You can do all kinds of interesting things with that.
From looking at the board, it looks like it's mostly copied from the iMX6 reference design and Hobbitboard.
The iMX supports an OTG port in it's stage 0 ROM for device recovery, and it can be lit up as a USB gadget. It's just a question if it's padded out on the PCB. Seems like there's a number of pogo pin pads near the edge of the board and it's probably in there somewhere.
Oh, man. I'm surprised that card works at all with that wiring. High speed single ended signaling does not do well off-board. Have you done any kind of integrity testing, like writing a GB to the disk and then reading the checksum?
If anyone is looking to do this mod, at least consider using a shielded ribbon cable like so:
In addition, the card will by default start in a 12.5MB/s mode at 3.3v, which is 25MHz per lane. That's not DC, but it's definitely slow enough to run on some pretty dodgy wiring. It will only switch to higher speed modes if requested, and if it actually works (falling back to lower speeds otherwise).
I have an FFC version of that product and it works very well. Whatever data rate reduction I might see from the additional length is overtaken in a really big way by my ability to use full-size SD cards instead of the micro-SD card slots my development boards usually come with.
You definitely don't need a shielded cable. SD is very robust. Hell, I've seen people run SPI or I2C over similar lengths and types of cable and those two protocols are much less robust than SD.
I can't understand the negative sentiment in these replies. A ribbon cable is objectively a better design choice. If someone is attempting this mod themselves why would they not pick the best choice? We're all engineers, here, right? Do you all prefer to drive without wearing a seat belt as well?
I think people were more put off by your amazement that it worked at all (and the "tone" which went with it), when there is no reason for it considering the original write-up has no issues with its implementation. Of course use what makes your project work the best, but don't go monster cable level on parts that need not.
It's a better choice only if don't consider the cost or other factors. Engineering isn't about reaching a theoretical ideal "best", engineering is a about a practical compromise, getting things done.
Amazing work, I'm going to try and replicate it with mine.
The ReMarkable has an amazing writing-feel and the software is just enough to fulfill its core function but it could be so so much more.
Disappointingly the company doesn't want to open-source their code and isn't focused on the software side of their product so we're left to patch the binaries ourselves at a snail's pace.
On the plus side it's given me an excuse to up my Ghidra skills.
Another thing I've I've noticed is that the userbase is highly skilled, people on the subreddit and discord are constantly publishing hacks and patches and discussing customization options. It's a very cool community.
I have a ReMarkable and really love it, mainly for taking it to meetings where I felt it was inapropriate to be stuck on a laptop infront of other people, it just feels more natural making notes on it as if I had paper and with the low latency it's great to write on.
I haven't had issues with the internal storage not being enough - but if I do, this is really interesting and I hope the hacker community around ReMarkable stays vibrant as it's such an interesting device.
Yeh the ReMarkable is one of my all time favourite purchases. I've been there since the beginning and watched as they really refine their software. I do wish however the new version had a bigger hard drive option.
There is a one-star review on Amazon [1] from 2018 talking about losing data, has that been addressed?
Another two-star review also from 2018 [2] talking about exported notes only being raster pictures instead of PDF (even more ideal is time-series encoded vector data inside the PDF as a side-channel that can be read back out so other software can perform their own post-capture analysis upon the user's interaction via the pen/eraser with raw pressure, tilt, coordinate, tip type, etc. data). But it looks like PDF now is possible, and the exporting problems can be worked around [3]?
How stable have you and others found the software in 2020 for sharing back out PDF annotations and raw "use it as a notepad"?
A one star review from 2018 is an anecdote that seems well out of the norm. I wouldn't draw too much from a single 2.5 year old review with very few similar experiences; especially when everyone else says the product is solid.
I find it to be completely reliable. It handles transient loss of wifi and loss of connectivity to their cloud, doing retries and so forth.
I have had 1 issue in my 2+ years of use where the device rebooted while I was in the middle of writing something, and when it came back, only my last couple of seconds of writing gesture were lost. I don't think about it from a reliability perspective.
I have been pushing data to mine as well, with a local amalgam that de-drms kindle books, convert to pdf, push to remarkable cloud, which is then retrieved by my device. Have done > 100 books, all good.
Really great device. Would contribute equity to them were such an option available.
In my experience, I am an academic and supervise numerous PhD/MSc students and interact with many different projects. With paper notes I always found it challenging to maintain a single line of notes for a specific topic (multiple notebooks? I would need 20 of them…). For the reMarkable I just have a virtual notebook for each project/student with a date at the top of each page as to when the meeting took place and it becomes trivial to keep track of. Not to mention that I can carry a whole library of research paper PDFs with annotations…
Not that it'd scale to your rather impressive needs - but I've found numbering pages in my books, and maintaining an index, to work well for keeping track of multiple subject threads in a single series of notebooks.
It can get a little complicated with references across multiple volumes, since unless you copy the entire index into each later volume, you have to check each book - but what I frequently find myself doing is referencing other volumes by page number in the actual content of notes, to simplify later lookups. That and knowing which volume contains which page numbers (I use a single type of notebook and they're 160 pages each, so e.g. page 210 is easily identified as being in volume 2) makes it pretty easy to keep track of the whole thread and retrieve whatever context I need at any given time.
Granted, this gets a little more complicated when you work sometimes from home and sometimes at the office; unless you carry all your notebooks from place to place, you can find yourself unable to follow a reference. But it's pretty rare in my experience to need to look back more than one volume, and in any case I intend to be strongly remote-first for the rest of my career, with all the money and effort I've put into setting up a maximally productive workspace in my home office during COVID.
It's an entirely reasonable question! The answer is, because I started this numbering scheme with the diary I began back at the start of 2018, and I'm more pleased that that's just about to reach page 1000 than I would be if it were about to reach page 100 of volume 5. Since I was already in the habit, it made sense to employ the same system in my work notebooks when I likewise standardized those.
In both cases, it also makes for a more compact scheme of reference, since I only need to write "pp. 380-382", rather than "vol. 3 pp 20-22" or "pp. 3/20-22" or some other such notation that requires an explicit volume number - not that that's not a somewhat post hoc reason, but I have found it to be convenient, and there's nothing wrong in any case with deriving some enjoyment from the fact that the very page numbers themselves reflect the extent to which I've developed journaling and notetaking into deliberate and durable practices in their own right. (Especially when I number the pages of a fresh volume, as part of the process of preparing it when I approach the end of the one I've been filling. Numbering from 1 to 180 over and over again seems like it'd get dull! Numbering from 999 to eleven hundred and whatever, as I did yesterday, is much more enjoyable.)
All that aside, I definitely don't have any argument for why the scheme I use is the scheme everyone should use. It's just what works best for me, and in the context of any running document someone maintains for their own use, what works best for them is what matters.
This is a complicated question because it really depends on your paper workflow.
I have been, for 30+ years, a heavy paper notebook writer, with a whole workflow- a superset of the bullet workflow for todos, but also supporting creative writing/brainstorming, and other workflows. I have spent untold...thousands...on pens, levenger paper, storage of square meters of old notebooks, the whole 9.
It took me a long time- calendar-wise- to transition to the remarkable, because the ergonomics are completely different. In some ways better, in some ways not as good, in many ways not as good from an all-digital perspective as it could be. But I have faith in the org in their choices going forward to build on the base that exists now.
It's not an ipad. It's not a consumption-first device. It's a production-first device.
It's very different from paper, and far from perfect for what it is, but I would not go back to paper. And I see it as an improvement to laptop for some uses cases. Depending on how the remarkable 2 feels I may get some for my kids.
ReMarkable is one of the most exciting Linux eInk tablets out there.
I am still waiting for my ReMarkable 2 preorder since it got with some covid delay, I hope it will be easy to develop for it since it does include a USB-C and an Accessory port.
How many Linux eink tablets or tablets with Linux are out there? I'm not being sarcastic I don't know of any other ones unless you count Android as linux and I don't even know if there are any aside from the pine tablet and I dont think it's out yet either.
The non android Kindle tablets run Linux with x11 and a heavily configured awesomewm. Most of the GUI is just java apps. The kernel and bootloader are downloadable from amazon and it’s very easy to replace the amazon stuff with a complete desktop environment containing xterm, Firefox ESR, gcc etc.
Honestly even if they were more expensive the non android kindles are way better than most android tablets for anything except games.
If you don't count Android, I'm not sure there are any? Most eink tablets have a user interface that is more similar to smartphones than computers. Thus, most people won't need to run GNU coreutils, Gnome, or other parts of an average Linux desktop. If you do count Android, there are several; my Onyx Boox for instance runs Android, and can thus use regular smartphone apps for e.g. file syncing.
Hello fellow Onyx Boox user. I'm trying to edit PDFs with the ONYX Note application but, it's very limited. Have you found any hand writing applications that edit PDFs? I guess I'm asking what applications are you using daily on your BOOX.
I always try to jump into these threads when I hear Onyx Boox mentioned. They're a lousy company that does not respect the GPL and ships intentionally insecure software (ancient linux kernel with SELinux disabled for starters) that phones home to Chinese servers. The bootloader is locked, so putting pmOS is out of the question and their update files are intentionally obfuscated.
This received some attention in the re--it community last month--the company still does not care [0]. It's a tragedy because their hardware is good, otherwise and they can compete on that.
I own an Onyx Boox Max Pro 13 inches. I was happy with it, until the battery died completely after 14 months and the device started freezing continuously.
This is a bit concerning. I have a Max2 myself, and have been satisfied so far. But it cost a lot, and I don't use it that often, so I was hoping to get 5-6 years of use out of it for the device to be worth the investment...
Did you get any free reparation or replacement?
What's the significance of it being Linux? Does that mean I can connect via USB and run arbitrary code there? Assuming that's the case, I would imagine needing to reverse engineer their binary to do anything useful?
I believe there is evidence that the action of writing by hand forms memories more strongly.
Since all my meetings are video calls now, I've reverted to writing notes, simply because I can't feign concentration on the call and type into a different window at the same time.
I finish my days surrounded by scraps of paper to be typed up. Can't wait for my ReMarkable 2 to arrive.
I keep my notes in notebooks and never need to bother typing them up - with numbered pages, I can reference them from my notes file, and with my notes file split into dated sections, I can reference the other way too. And I look after my notebooks, so losing my paper notes isn't all that much more likely than losing my laptop, anyway.
I used to try to take meeting notes electronically, with a laptop or an iPad or whatever. Paper turns out to just work a lot better, for me at least. It doesn't take me out of the flow of a discussion the way dealing with a computer does, I never have battery problems, and I think there's really something to the idea that the process of writing by hand helps fix memories in a way that typing doesn't.
edit: I can also vouch for the value of fountain pens in making the process of writing pleasant in its own right. A well-designed pen requires only the pressure of its own weight under gravity to deposit ink reliably; much of learning how to write with such a pen is thus unlearning the forcible hand required to use more conventional writing instruments, with the very pleasant side effect of making finger aches and hand cramps largely a thing of the past. For the same reason, most people find their handwriting to improve as a result of the switch - without the need to ram the nib into the paper just to get a line at all, you find yourself more able to write neatly without having to overcontrol the way you do with a pencil, ballpoint, or even a rollerball. Developing a beautiful, personal hand is a pleasure all its own, and nothing else I've ever tried has helped me
do that nearly as well as using a fountain pen has. And, with a little practice, taking notes quickly is easier than ever before, too - it's amazing how much of a difference it makes when your hand doesn't start to hurt after just a page or two!
It's a practice I'm happy to recommend, and not at all difficult to start; a Pilot Metropolitan in medium or fine should run you somewhere between $12 and $20, with Pilot Namiki replacement cartridges usually about 50 cents each in packs of six or twelve, and almost any Moleskine-type notebook will do. That's where I started, and while I've since moved on to a system more tailored to my specific purposes, that's definitely the starting point I'd recommend as an inexpensive way to get a sense of fountain pens' strengths and weaknesses in general.
As I think must be very evident by now, I'm happy to talk about this stuff! It's become a bit of a hobby in its own right for me, so if you have questions, feel free to hit me up and I'll do my best to give useful answers.
Being able to write left handed without making ink smudges is a big reason why I now prefer digital notes. G2 gel ink is mostly okay, but I think fountain pens are out of the question for most left handers.
There's a method for left handed writing which avoids this problem, without wrist strain: simply holding the page at 90 degrees, and writing vertically.
Alas, I wasn't taught it while neuroplastic, and have been unable to get the hang of it. I regret that my teachers were clueless about the peculiarities of lefthandedness, but at least I'm not of the era when it would have been beaten out of me.
I'm left handed and I use Parker Quink ink in my fountain pens exactly because it dries fast and thus I don't smudge often (though I will smudge if I write super fast).
That's fair! I'm right-handed myself, and while I've seen a few articles that purport to offer methods that can work for southpaws, the impression I've come away with is that it's as much a matter of luck as of anything else.
I can definitely second the value of a good quality pen. I've never tried a fountain pen, but I really like my Pilot G2's with the medium-sized refills.
I'm considering giving fountain pens a try once my refills run out.
You can pick up a Pilot Metropolitan for usually between $12 and $20, and Pilot Namiki cartridges are usually between $.33 and $.50 each depending on if you get the 6- or the 12-pack. You'll probably go through cartridges faster than refills since a fountain pen lays down more ink per unit distance, but that's also a big part of what makes them so comfortable to use: thinner ink needs less force per unit flow, and also provides a fluid bearing between the tip and the paper.
So it's not a huge investment to give it a try and see if you like it, is what I'm trying to say! And there's no compromise on quality involved with the Metropolitan, either; I've paid four or five times as much for Western pens that didn't work a quarter so well. For all that it's kind of a cliché about Japanese companies, Pilot really is pretty obviously fanatical about quality even in their entry-level lines, and the Metropolitan reflects that; they are by far the best steel-nibbed pens I've used, and I still prefer one for letter writing with the 1.1mm stub nib.
(Also, in my experience at least, there's a good deal of adaptation early on to develop the lighter hand, and a steel nib is much more forgiving of excess force than a gold one like my Decimo uses.)
Other than the lighter hand, one thing you'll definitely notice is a difference in weight; Metropolitan bodies are turned from brass, and the result is a pen that's both heavier and balanced further back than you'll be initially used to. That actually helps, since you can support the weight of the pen in the web of your thumb and find a natural balance point that lets the pen's weight, instead of your hand, provide the force. But it does also take some getting used to, and some prefer a lighter pen - part of why I ended up with the Decimo is its aluminum body, and the polymer-bodied Lamy Safari is a good entry-level option if you're concerned about weight and comfort.
When I take mine to meetings I feel like a hipster, luckily I mostly work from home. It's great, but flawed in some annoying ways - sofware updates have fixed some of the issues but they've been slow in coming and I'm not confident they won't dry up now the focus is shifting to the Mk2 device. Use it all the time, but find it hard to recommend!
> When I take mine to meetings I feel like a hipster
Try using a fountain pen! I was a little self-conscious at first too. It helps that no one really cares, though. And now I have an ironclad excuse not to lend anyone my pen, which is nice considering that my ballpoints used to go walking with Jesus so often that I ended up keeping three spares in my backpack.
I'd like to buy their v2.0 model but I was turned away by their up sell tactics. You want a pen that can also erase? - Of course you do and it doesn't cost them anything extra. Another 50 bucks please (marked down from 100 so you think its a deal). The default cover it comes with is comically inadequate because a quarter of the device sticks out. Want a cover that covers the entire screen? 80 bucks please.
I personally felt pretty happy to pay them more for more functionality. It didn’t feel like upselling to me at all, it felt more like they are a “little guy” doing limited manufacturing of a tablet in a crowded market, and they have to be really careful about not missing monetization opportunities that a lot of their target customers (people for whom the overall price of the device and all the add ons is pretty trivial) would be fine with.
It’s not like they are generating some insane profit margin on these things.
You can get a normal stylus for $0.36 on aliexpress. I know these ReMarkable are probably not the same, but they aren't $99.64 or $49.64 more complex than a stylus from aliexpress. So the margin is probably pretty big. Which is OK, you don'
t have the right to use a cheap ReMarkable product or something, but lets not pretend they are doing people any favours by 'letting' them buy their things. They are a company that wants to make a profit, good for them.
The regular stylus comes for free in the current presale. The eraser stylus is additional 40€, requires additional sensors and required additional R&D. Cost of a product is in the end a function of manufacturing, distribution, expected number of sales and R&D cost with some profit at the end.
Considering an Apple stylus retails for 90€, Samsung S Pen for 40€ and Wacom Bamboo stylus for 50€ the current 40€ extra seem absolutely fair for me in a premium niche market.
No, you didn't, apologies if it came off that way :)
I do find it uh... "remarkable" that people are offended at a $49 upsell from a small company, given $2 trillion + companies do this all of the time at a higher price.
$49 seems like a perfectly low price for a well designed stylus for a limited manufactured tablet. I don’t see any sense in which it’s useful or fair to compare that with $0.36 commodity stylus mass manufactured for commodity tablets.
I preordered the Remarkable 2 and I’m excited to get it. I’m a bit surprised by everyone here talking about how they use it for note taking, because my entire purpose for getting one is to read and annotate pdf files with it. Does it do a good job for this compared to an iPad (which I use currently with iAnnotate)? Someone mentioned that the processor is too slow to render pdf pages quickly enough. Is this true only for high resolution rasterized PDFs or also for native vectorized ones? Hopefully the new version has a faster chip.
In the case of ReMarkable 1, there are almost no issues with vectorised PDFs - when changing pages the screen update is usually the limiting factor, and that's relatively quick. For rasters, though, it does take a while to render out (>1 second for particularly complex pages). I think this is mostly a software limitation - some time is given over to drawing and saving the small thumbnail.
This reminds me of the hacking community of the Amazon Kindle. The firmware developers said they could have blocked it out harder but didn't because they didn't want to cripple the device for hackers. Apparently the Kindles run awesome windows manager.
I used to be into eink displays but the contrast ratio is too low and it looks too blurry for me so I went back to screens. Eye strain was the first reason they said eink was good for eye strain. Turns out it's the DPI or PPI, so essentially an iPad with retina is less eye strain. I use AMOLED to read since I read that the wavelengths of blue light also are bad.
It's not DPI or PPI for me, the lack of a backlight and the finish on eInk seems to be the thing.
I'm not saying it's that way for everyone, but if I'm going to be reading for a while then my kindle paperwhite is much better for my eyes than any backlit screen I've used.
The page you linked doesn't mention PPI or DPI at all. From what I can see from a quick search, viewing low-res images strains the eyes but I'm not sure how that relates to pure text.
It also specifically mentions glare and reflection being part of the problem, something eInk displays are better at than normal displays IMHO, because they don't project light at your eyes.
Do you have any links to "the science" here? Because a quick search seems to pull up a few things supporting less eyestrain from eInk than other screens, regardless of resolution. For example - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24386252/
I hope that whatever you link to takes into account different screen technologies too - I can understand that it makes a difference on back-lit LCD monitors, but I'm going to take more convincing that the same necessarily applies to eInk tablets, as that would contradict personal experience as well as other material I've seen.
Contrast varies a lot between devices. I haven't received my ReMarkable yet but it is a custom panel, supposedly better contrast than the average screen, and being fully matte probably helps.
The contrast is a problem of eink screens. There is not much besides grayscale. That is why even if it's 1080 it looks like crap compared to an LCD at 720.
I’be been convinced to buy one since the first time I saw the ad. I’ve not made the purchase because I try to avoid backordering, specially for products over 100-200$
In the same boat as well. I'm starting to think to file a chargeback as I gather they are using preorder money to fund advertising like a Ponzi Scheme.
If you haven't, there's not much point to filing a chargeback; that'll be grounds for the acquirer to reject it, and your issuer probably will tell you to ask for a refund first before they'll file.
I use it mostly to take notes in meetings and as a scratch pad. The small vertical separation between the surface and the screen and the replaceable tips make it feel _very_ close to writing on real paper.
For PDFs, I found the first-gen processor to be too slow to be practical. I doubt this has improved much.
The e-Ink screen can make flipping through past notes a bit of a pain. For reading/later reference, I prefer opening the notes on a real computer via the desktop app/cloud sync.
I did not order the ReMarkable 2 because I felt the upgrades were not worth the price. While I would love to have an eraser tip and USB-C, it _is_ still a very expensive gadget.
I love mine, it is a great motivator for doing more reading in addition to helping keep my notes organized. Especially for reading academic papers, it is great to be able to easily annotate and then actually keep my annotations, which I haven't found any other good solution for.
I also decided to preorder a 2 because the thing that breaks immersion for me the most currently is having to switch to eraser mode. I may still keep my 1 as well though, because as another commenter mentioned the biggest slow down is trying to flip back through notes on the device (even using the zoomed out view it can be quite slow with larger documents). I have been working through a few math textbooks and am actually looking forward to being able to have problems open on one tablet and the book on the other.
Yes, I love it. I have tried numerous workflows to keep notes including Evernote, NValt, Devonthink, Bear, Agenda, Moleskine, paper...
This beats them all. Yes, there are software quirks, some huge gaps in the system (cut and paste between notebooks), but it's always available with no friction.
I have one (1st generation), and I'd say it's ok, but not great. The hardware is actually quite nice, but the device is held back by the quality of the software. My main sticking point is that it's impossible to move writing to the next page, something that I want to do all the time: rearrange my handwritten notes. Using Goodnotes on the iPad Pro is an infinitely better experience, except for one really big selling point of the ReMarkable: battery life and outdoor use (in the sun). You can keep it in your backpack for weeks and not worry about it. The friction of the pen on the writing surface on the ReMarkable is also quite a bit nicer, although having a Paperlike screen protector on the iPad helps
I'd say it's very unlikely. In super cheap eMMC the controller usually has the largest chance of dying early, but a proper 8GB eMMC modules really isn't that expensive, so I don't think they saved money there.
If the controller doesn't die, then the next reliability issue for your eMMC module is probably NAND wear. The ReMarkable has an 8GB eMMC module. Such a module can probably manage at least 1TB TBW (Total Bytes Written), and you won't reach that too quickly: the OS will eat a significant chunk of that 1TB, but apart from that all you do on this device is reading, writing and drawing. Those tasks do not require many program/erase cycles on the NAND at all, so I'd say it would take many years before you've worn out the NAND blocks.
On SD Cards at least, I've seen the software bugs in the FTL lose track of sectors more often when I've had the tooling to tell the difference. There's some terrible code in those things.
I'd love it if someone managed to reverse engineer the Remarkable such that we could run our own Linux distro on it with access to all the hardware.
The Remarkable is an awesome device, but it's so very limited by the software. It's extremely difficult to use it in a enterprise scenario due to lack of at rest encryption (on device) and no (official) private cloud options.
Regarding closing the case with glue, I have an iPod Classic 5Gen and there are a lot of mod's but I don't see one that change the case to be easily open. Remarkable don't apply to this because they are extremely thin but it should be a good feature to have in other devices.
Can the remarkable tablet (or 2nd gen) be used as a epaper monitor? I would love to be able to code on an epaper screen, even if only in a simple text editor with minimal visual change/animation.
I would pay a silly sum of money for an eInk laptop so I can code outside in the sun. We get so little sun here in the UK that my side project productivity plummets in good weather because I was to sit out and enjoy it. It doesn’t need to have a high refresh rate, it just has to be able to display text and browser the internet in some semblance of reasonable.
What do you think is the lowest acceptable refresh rate to make typing feel smooth? If you're a 60wpm typer, that'd be 60hz to display every character as you type it, might feel disjointed otherwise.
This screen is a different kind than you are used to. The pixels actually wear out after a remarkably small number of changes (~10k). So "60Hz" doesn't mean much. It can update the small number of pixels you actually want changed pretty quickly, but it takes a noticeable fraction of a second. The key is changing only those and leaving all the rest the hell alone.
Running Gnome on it is possible. But you do not want to.
I guess the letter rate is more important with this than the word rate, I would say 0.5 seconds would be the low end of reasonable (so 2 hz), if it could get to maybe 5-10hz that would be super
There are some laptops still with the transflective display technology that the OLPC used. Fewer than I'd like, since I have the exact same situation as you.
Since the remarkable has a micro USB port, does anyone know if it supports OTG devices?
It's such an awesome device. 90% of its awesomeness comes from the fact that they respect the GPLv3 license and give you root access to it trough ssh out-of-the-box (random password and requires activating it).
If I get enough time on my hands, I'm probably going to port postmarketOS on it.
[1] https://remarkablewiki.com/tips/start