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Begemot · 12-29-2017, 07:18 PM

Thank You for your review Poremskyi. I found it useful.

So reMarkable reading capablities:

PDF - no text search, no table of contents
epub - missing formatting, no clickable links

This is simply inexcusable if the device is going to be marketed to readers (not note takers).

Surely reMarkable did not develop a new PDF and epub renderer inhouse, they used some off the shelf libraries, so adding text search should have been relatively easy.

By comparison Sony DPT-S1 might not have epub reader but PDFs work great.
Or Kobo H20 might not be great at PDFs but its epub renderer works great.

This a software issue so lets hope reMarkable team or 3rd parties can release some better reading software.

12-29-2017, 07:18 PM	#258
Begemot Zealot Posts: 111 Karma: 18638 Join Date: Dec 2009 Device: Sony DPT-S1, Kindle DX, iPad, Kobo Mini,H20,iRiver StoryHD	Thank You for your review Poremskyi. I found it useful. So reMarkable reading capablities: PDF - no text search, no table of contents epub - missing formatting, no clickable links This is simply inexcusable if the device is going to be marketed to readers (not note takers). Surely reMarkable did not develop a new PDF and epub renderer inhouse, they used some off the shelf libraries, so adding text search should have been relatively easy. By comparison Sony DPT-S1 might not have epub reader but PDFs work great. Or Kobo H20 might not be great at PDFs but its epub renderer works great. This a software issue so lets hope reMarkable team or 3rd parties can release some better reading software.