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My reMarkable Paper Pro Review (6 Months Later)
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Aug 18, 2025
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e- in digital notebooks have completely
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changed the way that I work over the
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past year or so. And now that I've
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tested five different ones, it's time
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for me to share my thoughts on the most
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expensive one that I have ever used, and
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it's over $1,000. And that would be the
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Remarkable Paper Pro. So, let's get
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right into it. But before we do, I do
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want to say two different things. Now,
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number one, this Paper Pro from
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Remarkable was sent out to me for free
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by the brand to check out, but no
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content was guaranteed. And number two,
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if you do decide you wanted to purchase
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this, I do have an affiliate link down
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in the description in the top comment.
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It is a paid link and it helps me out
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with a commission if you guys make that
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purchase. But I recommend you only
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purchasing it if you think it's right
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for you because it's not perfect by any
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means. And that's about it. So, let's
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get right into the review. So, to give
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you a little bit of background on the
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device, let's get into the
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specifications and what it is. So,
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unlike your normal tablet, these e- in
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digital notebooks are basically an e- in
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display device. This one in particular
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is a color e- in device with a 10.8 in
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high, 7.8 in wide, and 8.2 in depth
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tablet. It weighs at about 525 g, which
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is 1.16 lb. Its display is a 229 PPI
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color canvas display, and it does
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actually have a front lit adjustable
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light. As for the processor, is sitting
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at a 1.8 in GHz quad-core processor with
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2 GB of RAM and 64 GB of internal
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storage. It does have a 5,030 milliamp
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hour battery and it actually does run on
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its own proprietary operating system
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based on Linux, not on Android like most
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other tablets have. And for syncing
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things between your devices, there are
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applications on all the major operating
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systems like iOS, Android, Windows, and
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Mac OS, which is how you kind of sync
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things between the two devices if you
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want to throw files on there. And then
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they do have a paid service called
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Connect, which gives unlimited storage
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and the ability to be able to get things
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like additional templates that aren't
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available to the unpaid subscribers. And
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as for the stylus, it's actually called
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a marker on the Remarkable. And there's
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two different versions. There's the
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Marker Plus and the standard one. The
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Marker Plus essentially adds an eraser
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at the end so you can just flip it
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around and erase stuff without having to
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mess with settings. And it does
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magnetize to the side of the tablet for
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easy storage. And the marker you see in
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this video is the Marker Plus. Now, with
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all the specs out of the way, let's talk
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about what I did and what I did not like
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about each kind of aspect of this
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tablet. Now, number one is the build
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quality. The Remarkable Paper Pro is
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ridiculous when it comes to build
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quality. It is one of the best built
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devices, not just in the e- in space,
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but most tablets in general. The build
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quality on this is incredibly nice. It
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has a full metallic feel, is incredibly
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thin, but it is a bit on the heavy end
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of stuff. And the accessories that you
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can get with it are magnetized to the
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rear of the tablet and all of that works
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really well. The front display on it I
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really like. It feels nice. It feels
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high quality. I have to say for build
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quality in comparison to things like a
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Supernote or even a Pen Star or anything
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like that, it is just in a level of its
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own, which it should for such a high
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price. Now, jumping into the display,
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you might be most interested in its
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color capabilities because it's actually
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one of the few digital notebooks that
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offers color display. Now, I have to say
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this tablet is one of the most
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polarizing tablets for me because I
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either really like it or I really don't
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like it. And I had to say when I first
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got it about six months ago, I wasn't
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super interested in the color aspects of
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it. I didn't find much use for it.
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However, after a while of using it, I
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started incorporating the color more
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into just kind of like into dividing up
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like how important certain to-dos are
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and draw my attention to different parts
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of documents that I'm working on. Over
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about six months now, I am much more
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used to the color and I think it
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actually is a really valuable and a
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really helpful way of adding some
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functionality to e ink. It is a pretty
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cool technology as well. As for clarity,
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it is an extremely clear display. The
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pen works well. You can see really well.
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However, I have to say I think the
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display on it is a little darker than it
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should be. When you compare a piece of
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paper to the tablet's display, you can
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see the tablet's display is quite a bit
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darker. And when it comes to reading or
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just kind of comprehension of what's on
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the display, it is not quite as easy to
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read as a piece of paper or I have to
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say some of the other tablets that I've
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used. It is a bit of a bummer because
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you feel like you have to use that front
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lit display because of the fact that it
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is darker to kind of make up for it. And
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I'd prefer to not honestly have that
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front lit display to make it feel more
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like you're actually reading a piece of
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paper. And now we're going to get into
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the section I think you guys are
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probably most interested in and that is
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the software and the actual usability of
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the tablet. And let's start off with the
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marker, which isn't normally the thing
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that I pay attention to the most in a
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tablet, especially one like this, but I
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have to say the marker is impressive.
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Like, it has it may only have the 4,000
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something different pressure points.
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However, it does a really good job. And
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I assume this is because they built it
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from the ground up. Instead of being
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based on an Android platform and just
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running off of Android with a stylus,
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they really built it from the ground up.
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And I have to say, the pen feels really
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nice. It's not because of the pen
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itself, but the actual like sensitivity
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in the different like choosing between a
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pen, a pencil, a fountain pen, a
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highlighter, any of those things.
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Everyone really genuinely does feel like
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you are using the real thing on it.
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Especially, you can really see it with a
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pencil when you kind of roll the pencil
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around in different ways. You can see
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even if you're creating one line, as you
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kind of tilt the pencil, it makes it so
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that it's a little bit wider and a
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little bit more dramatic and you can
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really tell that they've thought through
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this. This is something that no other
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company I've seen is able to do and it
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makes it feel like a much more realistic
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experience. It also has amazing
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templates. There are tons and tons of
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templates to choose from from
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productivity to artwork to even music
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sheets. It's pretty cool that you can
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have such a wide array of essentially
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different notebook styles that you would
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spend so much money on and searching for
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online to be able to get all in one
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device. As for the file system, it makes
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it feel like each kind of individual
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file is its own notebook and you can
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choose all the different templates and
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all that stuff within it. I have to say
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the file system is much better than some
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of the other tablets I've used. It's not
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my favorite. I still think a lot of
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these tablets really should probably
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feel more like a smartphone because
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that's just what people are used to. But
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it is a respectable and easy to navigate
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platform. And one of the recent things
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that it did update a couple months ago
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is they do have snap to shape. So you
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can draw a line and it snaps to being a
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perfectly straight line. Or if you draw
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a square, it snaps to a perfectly sized
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square. It's a nice thing to be able to
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make your artwork and just your
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templates feel a little bit nicer. And
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then I also like this is the only one
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I've seen where it has an infinite page
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scroll. So you can just keep writing and
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you just scroll up and you have more
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things that you can write on. is
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something that other tablets just create
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a whole new page for. So, it's nice you
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can kind of keep all your thoughts
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together and just scroll up and down
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instead of creating a new page
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altogether. Now, as for the downsides of
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the software, the number one thing that
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I run into and I think a lot of people
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will be annoyed by is the lasso tool,
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especially in the erase function. Other
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tablets, you can basically just scribble
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over something with the lasso tool and
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it deletes basically every individual
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line that you've created. Whereas the
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lasso tool on this one is very, very
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specific. you have to like perfectly
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line the lasso around the different
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shapes to make it so that it deletes the
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shape you're wanting to get rid of and
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it slows things down and is a little bit
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more clunky I'd say than the rest. And
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then the number two thing that is the
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most annoying thing about the software
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is the fact that it is based on Linux
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means you can't get the Kindle
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application. I read most of my books on
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the Kindle app and most of the other
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tablets I have have the functionality
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with for Kindle and this is the only one
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that I can't get Kindle on and it really
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annoys me because these e- in displays
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are perfect for reading books and this
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massive large color e- in display is so
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perfectly suited to having Kindle on it
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and it can't have it and instead you
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have to use EUB files which I found are
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actually pretty difficult to get when
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they are DRM free and you have to have
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DRM free files to be able to read them
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on remarkable, which means you have to
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remove the DRM from all the books that
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you're buying, which I I question the
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legality of that. And so, it is a bit of
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a bummer. I've barely read on this
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tablet at all because of that. And I
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keep finding my way to other tablets
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just so that I can read my Kindle. And I
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would just love that functionality on
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this tablet, but I can understand the
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restrictions because they based it off
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of Linux instead of basing it off of
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Android. But as for the software side of
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stuff, honestly, that's it. I don't
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really have many other complaints
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outside of those two things, but I have
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to say those are some pretty big deal
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breakers for I think quite a few people,
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especially considering the cost of this
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thing where you'd prefer for it to just
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basically do everything that the others
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can in one device. Now, jumping to the
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writing experience of the tablet, it is
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really nice. This is the fastest eing
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digital notebook I have used. When you
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write on it, it is immediate. There's no
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delay. When you delete things, it is
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immediate. There's no delay. And it is
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really, really impressive. Honestly, all
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the other tablets seem to lag just ever
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so slightly when you're writing. This
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one doesn't have that, and so your
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writing experience really does feel like
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you're writing on a piece of paper.
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After about 6 months of using it, I do
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notice it doesn't want to turn itself on
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and off quite as easily. I open up the
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cover on the tablet. It sometimes
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doesn't turn itself on when I press the
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power button. Sometimes I have to press
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it twice. It's kind of weird, and I
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don't really totally get that. But that
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is made up for the fact that you just
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have complete customization over your
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drawings. There are so many different
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pen styles, pencil styles, markers, all
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that kind of stuff. It is just so so so
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capable when it comes to writing. Now,
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jumping over to accessories on this. I
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really really do like the accessories. I
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They sent me basically everything you
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can possibly get, which includes the
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typing folio, the leather folio, the
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upgraded marker, and they honestly are
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all probably worth the price that they
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are when you buy them. They're high
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quality, work well. The magnetic
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features of the Remarkable Paper Pro
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work well with the accessories. The
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keyboard actually does work really well.
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I still struggle with being able to
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incorporate both the typing experience
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and the writing experience.
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And so I personally don't use the the
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keyboard all that much, but the keyboard
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itself is very nice. It the experience
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of using it does work. So if you're
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looking for a distraction-free typing
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experience, not writing experience, I'd
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recommend getting the keyboard. I would
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have no qualms with it. But I generally
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use these more for drawing and writing
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and so I don't really use the keyboard
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all that often. Now to talk about
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competitors, I'm not going to go into
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each tablet. I actually did create a
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fulllength article which I'll put down
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in the description of the top comment
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where I rank all the different tablets I
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have tested in the in digital notebook
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space. But is this worth over $1,000?
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This was $1,08 when it was sent to me
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with all the accessories and stuff. It's
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over $1,000. So you're competing with an
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iPad. If you're somebody that needs a
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lot of flexibility in the tablet you're
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going to go with, I would just get a
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nice iPad for $999. But if you're
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looking for a truly distractionfree
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great notebook and reading on Kindle is
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not important to you, this is an amazing
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tablet. Like seriously, it is. The build
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quality is ridiculous. The software is
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extremely well thought out, more so than
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any other tablet company I've seen in
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the digital notebook space. But if you
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need more flexibility, like web browsing
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or anything else, honestly, you're
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probably going to want to go with
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something like an iPad. But I would have
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no problem recommending the Remarkable
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Paper Pro if you're looking for a
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premium digital notebook. Just keep the
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things that I have mentioned in this
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video in mind when you're making that
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purchase. And if you wanted to check out
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another tablet, make sure on the screen
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right now is a link to the Supernote
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Manta and see my thoughts on that one as
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it's its major competitor.