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Originally Posted by lensmann
Are you sure? I'm interested in the reMarkable as well, but their website suggests otherwise as far as cloud integration is concerned:
They have their own cloud solution, but will that meet your use case of students syncing their work to your device? I can't see anything on the website saying they support shared folders.
Likewise for the internet.
My use case is very similar to yours - with the addition that I edit an academic journal, and will use the device to do an initial check of submissions to decide whether to reject in limine or send out to review. Unlike you, the RP1 would meet my requirements better than the reMarkable does, because syncing once a day is sufficient for me, and I'm never away from my laptop for longer than that when I'm working. However, the difficulty I have is that Sony appears to have no intention of selling the RP1 in Europe; hence my interest in the reMarkable. |
File transfer/syncing on the reMarkable is indeed based on their own cloud service, but the device will have internet access (no browser though) and reMarkable apps for iOS and Android connected to that cloud. Hence, for me the most important thing - in comparison to the DPT RP1 - is that I do not need to carry my laptop with me at all times to get documents from and to the device. I can either press a button on my phone when I receive documents from students (e.g. by email or blackboard) or set something up that will auto forward documents from and to a cloud-related folder (I do not know yet if it will auto sync then to the reMarkable cloud or if I still have to press a button on my phone, but nevertheless much more convenient than the DPT-RP1).
Hopefully they will integrate syncing with other cloud services like Dropbox as well, but the fact that the reMarkable at least has internet access as such - contrary to the DPT-RP1 - is very positive and leaves room for future cloud syncing updates. There's also an option to send a document by email directly from the reMarkable, see at 2:00: