ReMarkable Paper Pro Move review: e-ink gets nice and small

Since I fell in love with the revision of the remarkable 2 in 2020, I had a wish for Norwegian children behind this peak e-ink tablet: make one like that but smaller, please.

For what? Because even if it is pleasant to write on a “Pad Magic Legal Magic Legal Silt-Silt, without files, as I still call it, there are times when the form factor of a legal stamp seems too much. Use one on a plane tray table, for example, and you could feel exposed to the prying eyes of siege comrades. Then there is the portable. E-Ink, you can just slip into your pocket like a smartphone, rather than stuff it in a laptop bag, seems to be obvious.

The remarkable Paper Pro, released last year, went in the wrong direction in bulk. To win a color screen, it had to become slightly larger and slightly heavier than the remarkable 2. The screen size has gone from 10 to 11 inches. I have often looked with nostalgia my 7-inch Kindle Paperwhite, thinking: why can’t I write that E-ink screen size? (To be fair, judging by the 10 -inch Kindle scribe, Amazon does not get one either.)

Now, finally, remarkable is the first manufacturer of e-ink tablets to obtain it. With the launch of the Paper Pro Move ($ 449 with a regular marker stylus, $ 499 with Marker Plus, available to order now on remakeable.com), we have a 7.8 -inch laptop screen which is satisfactory small and portable. Surprisingly, remarkable did this while retaining all the e -inkor color features of the color of the pro paper – and the appearance of its pages.

I have been using the move for two weeks, and I really like what I see. Because here is the ingenious part of the design of the move: remarkable doesn’t Opt for the form factor of an ordinary old Kindle (or an average moleskine, to put it in terms of paper notebook). Instead, the company was inspired by something so obvious that this journalist struck his head that he had not thought about it: the notebook of the classic journalist.

Remarkable entering your pocket

It is not only that the journalist’s laptops are longer and thinner, so much the better to take fast notes while you are on your feet during a press conference. It is not only a thinner device is easier to stuff in your pocket (some pockets, to be fair, are too small to completely contain the movement). This is also what a longer and thinner design means in the context of a remarkable world.

In the orientation of the landscape, the screen of the Paper Pro Move is literally 1/3 of the Paper Pro screen. You might almost think that the company makes its movements by haunting its paper documents in three (to be clear, that’s not how it is). What this allows you to do is open a document on the Paper Pro movement in the same size as on Paper Pro. Just scroll several times to see everything.

Such intelligent design thought is not a fact. Indeed, it was a problem with the switch between remarkable 2 and Paper Pro: the devices created documents at different sizes, so it was boring to go back and forth between them. (The markers were not interoperable either; fortunately, the Paper Pro and Paper Pro Move can both use the same marker).

In portrait mode, the Paper Pro Move automatically adapts to the page on the screen. (It also pinpoints the menu bar at the top of the page, which makes more sense than on the left or right.) If you go back and forth between the portrait and the landscape mode, you can probably say what mode of particular notes have been written; Words may seem too small or too large in the other mode.

Use of remarkable paper pro moving into the nature
Credit: Chris Taylor / Mashable

Personally, I really liked to write in limited and tiny lines in portrait mode, as if I tried to save paper, and to take advantage of its appearance in regular size (orientation of the landscape). But your writing mileage can vary. And if you use the very effective writing and text conversion function, the size of your scribble may not have any importance at all.

Your mileage of the battery will also vary in my enthusiastic tests, the battery life has come far from the remark of remark that it can last two full weeks. To be fair, it will largely depend on the quantity that you use the E-Ink backlight (which also seems improved and more uniformly distributed around the screen, than in pro paper). If you are not using the backlight at all, two weeks of battery life seem a reasonable expectation.

A pro-Remarquable paper movement is delivered with warnings

The formal factor in a journalist’s notebook is not ideal for everything you can do on an E-Ink screen. Many PDF and Epub files will seem a little too small in portrait mode, so you have to return the screen and scroll a lot or spoil with Pinch and Zoom. This, unfortunately, is not helped by the only thing that still feels buggy on e-ink screens: if you pass through or around the pages too quickly, they cannot always follow. A slow refresh rate can scroll through the pages faster than you intend.

If you are used to LED screen smartphones rather than Kindles, for example, it can be an exercise in frustration. The problem of refreshing the colors that reproduces is also frustrating which postpones from Paper Pro: any color that you use which is not black must flash and deactivate. But if you are new in a remarkable world and you write with e-ink, you will be pleasantly surprised by the speed and natural writing itself (in regular black on white).

You will have to decide to become naked without the folio covers, which cost an additional cost or spend up to $ 100 more to protect your screen from all the striped items could be in your pocket or your bag. With the Paper Pro, I tended to become naked, because it slipped well in my bag next to my iPad and my MacBook. The Paper Pro Move feels more comfortable with its cover.

The Paper Pro Folio is also delivered with a keyboard, which is not an option with the folio Move lids. This decision has only one keyboard on the screen, but remarkable says it will play well with external Bluetooth keyboards in a future update.

Having a blanket does not help what I think is one of the biggest battery drains with all remarkable devices: it is too easy to press the ON button when it is in your pocket or your bag. Not for e-ink tablets the intelligent detection which prevents this from happening with an iPad.

There is a last warning on the cost. If you want more than your 50 most recent documents to synchronize with other devices (including remarkable desktop players, iOS and web applications), you will need the remarkable connection service. This is free for the first 100 days and costs $ 2.99 per month or $ 29 per year afterwards.

Conclusion: This notebook is magic

In the end, the proof is in writing. And I write, in more places than ever: on planes, in trains, in cars (I do not recommend the latter if you easily have evil, but desire was there). I wrote in bed while disturbing less my partner. I took it out of my pocket in the waiting rooms; I noted notes on it while friends with whom I had a coffee were busy typing “just a quick email” on their smartphones.

The best notebook or a writing tablet, to paraphrase a common saying on the cameras, is the one you have with you. And the remarkable Paper Pro Move is a notebook that you will want to have with you, for the sharpness of the result as well as the portability factor. If you have room in your pockets for a second gadget to stuff everywhere as you turn your smartphone, and if you are ready to leave your wallet a little more spacious, it can be movement.

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