Amazon has removed Download & Transfer option

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by rantanplan

Looking at all reviews for the Remarkable Paper Pro it looks fast enough. Not sure where you got your information from.

I'd rather trust eInk Corp than reviews nowadays on the internet.

Fast enough for what?

My experience (and I had a reMarkable) is that the company outdoes Apple's late Steve Jobs on reality distortion. I considered the Scribe, though I had an Elipsa at the same time as the reMarkable and looked at the various "colourised" eink and Gallery 3 and bought a Nxtpaper 2.0 based TCL Nxtpaper 11 (10.9", but close to 16:10 aspect). So pleased I bought the larger Nxtpaper 3.0 based Nxtpaper 14 (14.25" and lovely 3:2 Aspect). Both of those and a phone and a second hand Chromebook is less than* the Remarkable Paper Pro (resolution 1872x1404, the 8" Kobo Sage is 1920 x 1440). It's not good enough for art or photography.

I'd sooner buy another 8" Sage at €300 (free shipping) as a spare. I find it best (though only with front light off) for reflowable ebooks and small PDF instruction manuals. I've had/have various ereaders from 4.7" to 10.3" from Sony, Nook, Kobo, Kindle, Binatone (more use than a reMarkable as an ereader), iRiver as well as the reMarkable, which has eink, but is not a useful ereader (Native PDF, no meta data library interface, only Networking via USB or Wifi, so no Calibre).

Onyx Boox and Pocketbook are able to complete with Kobo and Kindle in the eReader market. Neither reMarkable, nor Bigme are viable ereader competitors.


[* Amazon price of £700]

[tomsem]

Originally Posted by Quoth

Then reMarkable is almost a one trick pony, small Norwegian or Scandinavian company more focused on PDFs and notes. Terrible to interface. No Calibre support. The reMarkable 2 is hardly different to the original remarkable (last time I looked they ran same FW revision) and like a poor clone of a Sony DPT model. Inferior to Kobo Elipsa. They now have a colour model (Kaleido 3).

Norway.

Jobs listing includes Salesforce Product Manager so kinda looks like they want to integrate with that, i.e. enterprise market. And a Go Developer (popular for web service development).

I suspect they are not making profit but trying to find a niche that would make them so. I think RM 2 is over 4 years old and the RM Paper Pro came out a few months ago. It is not Kaleido, but rather eInk Gallery 3.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Hellmark

Yeah, I am having it consistently fail for me. I think it is because it is wanting me to solve a captcha (if I use --showbrowser, I will see a captcha on screen for a few seconds before crashing)

You can try setting the first browser wait to 30 seconds to give you time to enter the captcha. I had that happen when I tried the script on Windows. Even then, it took several tries before the login happened. When I tried it on an OpenSUSE Tumbleweed Linux virtual machine, it did not ask for the captcha.

[jhowell]

Originally Posted by texasnightowl

I did notice that the covers are grayscale/bw instead of color? Are there other gotcha's or things I should know about kfx imports? Or are there other settings or process I should be aware of?

Amazon delivers different variants of KFX format to different platforms. Image quality is the primary difference. E-ink Kindles (other than Colorsoft) are the worst case, receiving low resolution, highly compressed, grayscale images.

[rcentros]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

If you see this message about D&T going away again, please take a screen grab and attach it. Thanks.

I get the warning...

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by texasnightowl

So I did just do a little test. I used my PW5/11th gen. Calibre 7.23 plus nodrm alpha plus kfx input. I dragged a kfx file from my pw5 (\documents\downloads\items01) to Calibre. It did show up in Calibre as kfx and I was then able to convert it to azw3 with no errors, so all good.

I did notice that the covers are grayscale/bw instead of color? Are there other gotcha's or things I should know about kfx imports? Or are there other settings or process I should be aware of?

Install the Apple Books covers plugin and download the cover before you convert. The conversion will use use the downloaded cover. I did that with KFX > ePub and the color cover was used.

[texasnightowl]

Originally Posted by jhowell

Amazon delivers different variants of KFX format to different platforms. Image quality is the primary difference. E-ink Kindles (other than Colorsoft) are the worst case, receiving low resolution, highly compressed, grayscale images.

Yeah. I did a little more testing. I had a book with some illustrations in it (one of the Lord of the Rings releases) and noticed in my azw3 file when I opened it in Calibre the illustrations were color and when I instead opened the kfx imported file (converted to epub) that the illustrations were grayscale. Obviously, I'm happy I have my azw3 files downloaded and for most of my books it isn't a big deal but will be something to remember in future.

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Install the Apple Books covers plugin and download the cover before you convert. The conversion will use use the downloaded cover. I did that with KFX > ePub and the color cover was used.

Thanks. I will make note of this!

[tomsem]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Install the Apple Books covers plugin and download the cover before you convert. The conversion will use use the downloaded cover. I did that with KFX > ePub and the color cover was used.

Or just have calibre retrieve metadata + cover.

[lilywhite]

Originally Posted by texasnightowl

92 in TPZ (which I had almost forgotten about!)

I'm in the process of downloading more than 3000 books 😭 — but my Calibre with DeDRM plugin doesn't seem to be able to handle tpz. Am I missing something obvious?

[rcentros]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

The picture is not a Kindle Touch. It's a Kindle NT. And I've used one of those and it's awful. Also, be prepared for any Kindle you buy from eBay to be black listed.

I still like my Kindle NT. It's probably the Kindle I've done most of my reading on.

[rcentros]

Thanks for this thread. I would have missed this. I have less than 300 Kindle books and probably only half of them that I care about, so I'll have time to download those before the the cut-off date. (I've already done three pages of the eleven.) I probably have most of these downloaded already, but I'll use this as a backup of the backup.

[tomsem]

Originally Posted by lilywhite

I'm in the process of downloading more than 3000 books �� — but my Calibre with DeDRM plugin doesn't seem to be able to handle tpz. Am I missing something obvious?

It should import as HTMLZ. From there you need to convert to something else. There will be a lot of typos to clean up; some OCR process added (hidden) text and that can only be so accurate (and probably this was with what was available 20 years ago).

For fun I have been working through a math book that was in Topaz and replacing SVG with MathML (as I fix typos). Some OCD part of me seems to love doing stuff like that.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by tomsem

Or just have calibre retrieve metadata + cover.

I disagree with having calibre retrieve the metadata. You'd have to manually check that it's correct so you may as well edit the metadata manually.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by lilywhite

I'm in the process of downloading more than 3000 books 😭 — but my Calibre with DeDRM plugin doesn't seem to be able to handle tpz. Am I missing something obvious?

.tpz is topaz and you may as well just dump those.

[texasnightowl]

Originally Posted by lilywhite

I'm in the process of downloading more than 3000 books 😭 — but my Calibre with DeDRM plugin doesn't seem to be able to handle tpz. Am I missing something obvious?

The topaz files can import as at least 2 different formats. htmlz which you can convert and mess with. and azw1 which, as far as I can tell so far, you can't do anything with. so I have them in Calibre to represent them in my library, but the azw1 files can't be opened or converted. so I have them but the azw1 files are useless pretty much.