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Originally Posted by innocenat
I don't care about handwritten conversion, and most people who I have seen enjoying their e-ink notebook doesn't care either.
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Then they don't really use computers properly. A paper notebook is better for notes than a reMarkable.
Either it has a decent physical keyboard or a touch keyboard for short notes or handwriting conversion, otherwise what's the point if you can't copy the notes as text, back them up or import them to a text editor or wordprocessor.
An electronic sketchpad is inferior to a paper notebook and very expensive. Hype.
The Apple Newton wasn't good enough. The Palm PDA "grafitti 2" was too slow and fiddly.
I've used sketch apps and pointless. The decent eink tablets with handwriting recognition also do sketching and free form "handwriting" just as well as the reMarkable. Also they often can export that as PNG or PDF images via USB mass storage (or for the Android ones, MTP).
I've a wide range of these things so it's an informed opinion. Still have a Palm PDA, Bamboo Wacom and Lenovo X201 convertible laptop/table with combo touch and Wacom stylus digitizer screen.
I've tested Nebo handwriting recognition on an iPad with "pencil" and used the dumb sketching / "writing" on reMarkable, Sage, Elipsa, Wacom tablets and screen (Window 3.11, XP, Window 7, Linux), phone, 10" LCD tablet, Palm PDA etc.
Can't see the point in spending €400 to €800 on eink with no native handwriting recognition/conversion. The €250 to €450 eink models and €500 LCD models do the sketching too and optionally the handwriting recognition (Nebo is a cheap app for iOS and Android and basic version free). Obviously you need iPad, MS Surface or an Android model with a true digitiser stylus for dumb "fake handwriting" or conversion to text. Without text it's not a real electronic notepad, but a sketchpad.
You can buy an etch-a-sketch or notebook and coloured pencils/pens AND a colour laser printer-scanner-copier, an eink reader and an android tablet for the price of a BigMe colour.
Also reMarkable or remarkable 2 is in reality poor compared to Kobo Elipsa even if you don't want the conversion/recognition. 8G vs 32G storage, no native format on reMarkable other than PDF, only works with their app or USB networking. It's only worth while if it's half price.
There are at least a couple of other 10" approx eink far better than reMarkable.