Onyx Boox<\/a> range), and much of the indignation in the reviews against the Remarkable were about capability: along the lines of “why the hell would you spend this money when for the same money you could get All These Other Things?”. <\/p>\n\n\n\nMy answer is: what is quite often needed is less. We don’t any of us struggle to find more capability, more reading material, more links, more stuff<\/em> – but the true value here is that this is a device which removes a huge chunk of noise in a reading and creative space. It does a set of things extremely, extremely well – and to me it is a huge plus point that it doesn’t have games, a web browser, notifications, apps. It is instead a very quiet, gentle place to consume and create long form content. It is this which makes the Remarkable very different. <\/p>\n\n\n\nTo those who might respond to this with “yeh, but in that case, why not just get a notebook?” the answer is clearly because it does offer some<\/em> capability (just enough!) to make it a useful contender in the digital space (sharing of notes is slick and easy, text recognition is really pretty great, exporting images as multiple formats including PND, SVG etc is exactly what you need) – so for that it does “do things a notebook can’t” but at the same time in a nice, quiet, solid form that eschews noise and distraction. <\/p>\n\n\n\nI like it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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