Looking to trade my Scribe in for a KLC, was wondering if anyone had experience with both. I like the size of the scribe, but I don’t care much for the screen. I had an Oasis before this and I never liked the screen on that either. I have a hard time getting the settings to look right, and something about the fonts just doesn’t look right. My partner’s paperwhite always looked much better.
Main uses are reading, note taking, and manga/comic reading. Intrigued by the color aspect, but worried about the screen crispness.
I’ve got a Libra Colour but you gotta keep in mind that colour trueness on epaper is not great. The notebook has limited colour choices and they all kind of look like pastel colours.
Besides that, I am not crazy about the refresh rate. It has techniques to refresh quicker than other ereaders, but it’ll still be kind of spotty sometimes.
In reading, I’ve only seen colours on book covers and they look okay, but if has nowhere near the contrast or vividity of an LCD.
Do you find the refresh rate hampers note taking?
I returned my pen and kept just the reader after a week because the writing experience was overall terrible.
For context: I also own a Supernote Nomad and Remarkable Paper Pro. These devices both highlight how unacceptably bad the Kobo device is.
If you really want an ereader for comics the paper pro is a more appropriate form factor, though the warnings above about limited color range and saturation still apply.
How do you like the Remarkable Paper Pro? I have a Supernote A5X and I love the ceramic nib. Between that and Remarkable pulling their stupid rent-seeking subscription service a while ago (which they have since pulled back to a much less offensive model), I have been a Supernote fanboy. But that Paper Pro looks pretty special.
Overall it is a fantastic device, good enough that I use it despite hating their stupid subscription model. I take work notes in it all day long and it has proven to be excellent for that.
I also use it to read for a book club I run, and the PDF markup tools are pretty nice. Color highlights are cool and they will stick to the text of the pdf to be perfectly straight which makes me happy.
I have a Supernote Manta coming this week though which may replace it. The Supernote pen is just way better.
Ugh. Giving up the pen is literally the biggest thing. Plus I feel like the general consensus is that the Supernote is, indeed, For Those Who Write. Would you agree that the Remarkable is less designed around the sort of daily note-taker workflow?
Maybe that big shiny color screen will become commoditized enough that Supernote will have a model in a year or two…
I got my Supernote manta today. After using it for a few hours the difference between remarkable and Supernote is more in focus for me: Supernote is a better physical experience, but the remarkable software is just leagues better.
E.g., Supernote gives you the bevels you can drag, the pen feels more natural, and the screen better replicates the look of paper, while the remarkable has a better general interface, and the handwriting recognition is insanely good.
Sometimes the Supernote will refuse to find handwritten text like it doesn’t exist, and using the handwriting keyboard is frustrating and clumsy, where the remarkable has never failed to correctly interpret my writing the first time.
Interesting. Thanks for the update!
I don’t use handwriting recognition except for search, so that doesn’t bother me much. I could see the Remarkable having better UI, though I wondered if it might be less targeted to note taking. Sounds like that isn’t really the case though.
The way I look at it, the UI comes into play semi-regularly, but the pen is in constant use. That’s probably still #1 for me so I’ll just hope Supernote has a larger, color model in the works for now. But man, that Paper Pro does sound nice.
I don’t think I’d agree that the remarkable is less “for those who write” than the Supernote.
I switched from my Nomad to the Paper Pro simply because the Nomad was too small for the notes that I write and Supernote wasn’t selling something comparable.
I think they have different priorities maybe and supernotes business model is way better, but they’re both good for writing.
It’s not great.
Compared to the Remarkables or the Onyx Booxs (the more expensive one) it’s just really rudimentary functionality. It’ll do for some light scribbling or if you journal in bursts. I think it’s best for just doodling a little.
Good ereader though.