Quote from: Redaktion on March 25, 2025, 11:27:39

The Paper Pro from Remarkable is stylish, has a high-quality finish and is ideal for three things: Taking notes, reading and editing documents. That's all the electronic notebook can do, to avoid distraction. But is that enough to justify a price of almost 650 euros?

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If you're someone who regularly uses paper to take notes and wants a digital solution, this might be a worthwhile investment in your daily workflow.

Ebook readers promise to replace paper but they never show pen writing as thin as an H lead pencil or ballpen.

This entire class of products mess me up. I mean I love the concept - especially with colour eInk and a stylus - it's the closest you can get to paper and pencil in an electronic device and has the advantage of a literal always-on screen (even if the power is gone).

And the essentially infinite standby time (ok ok.. weeks then) means it's also like paper in that most of the time it's pick up and go.

BUT... it's also really expensive and most of them are so heavily targetted to two tasks: eBooks and note taking, that these end up being very limited use devices (with a few exceptions that support full Android).

Meanwhile, I can get a Samsung S9 FE+ for CA $750 (often less) and have a 12.4" screen device that can do pretty much everything one of these eReaders can... and more... weighs about the same and actually has ok standby time (not as good as an eReader, but still not bad - 5-7 days).

Definitely a niche product but still cool. I have a small Kobo mainly to display bar coded stuff so scanners can read it better, but I rarely use it for reading books.

I was intrigued with Remarkable when they were first released but quickly realized they were aiming for a very VERY specific niche consumer at a very VERY high price point relative to the competition which in the end wasn't what I was looking for. Surprised to see reading books on the device is not the best experience. Very interesting. Thanks for the review. It was very informative!