As a scientist I have to read a lot of literature and as much as the idea to add searchable annotations to the PDFs that I am reading appeals to me, I really dislike having to read that literature on a computer screen but printing out everything (and then not finding the annotated copy) is not a wonderful solution either.

Those of you who have a tablet with an e ink display (remarkable or other), do you read scholarly literature on it regularly? As nice as iPads may be as a general device, the idea of reading on something that does not resemble a typical computer screen appeals to me, much like the fact that the remarkable at least runs Linux and gives me root access.
Is the screen size sufficient, and does the somewhat slow page draw get in the way or is it tolerable?
Now that the remarkable tablet can OCR handwriting, is that available for written notes that you create or can margin notes on PDFs also be OCRed?
Are annotations visible in other PDF readers or not?

Many thanks
Prion

PS: Some reviews highlight the fact that annotations to PDFs stay where they are even when the PDF is zoomed in, thus losing their connection to the text that was annotated. Is this still the case with the current firmware?

Last time I checked, Remarkable turns the searchable pdf files to images to allow the manual drawing over them. That was a huge turn off to me. I doubt if that behavior has changed in any of the updates.

My understanding is that it has changed https://blog.remarkable.com/big-software-update-convert-handwritten-text-revamped-pdf-export-and-much-more-b4a0256c2cc4
but haven't tried it out. I only use reMarkable for my own notes for the time being.

Dellu wrote:

Last time I checked, Remarkable turns the searchable pdf files to images
to allow the manual drawing over them. That was a huge turn off to me. I
doubt if that behavior has changed in any of the updates.

Alexander Deliyannis wrote:

My understanding is that it has changed
https://blog.remarkable.com/big-software-update-convert-handwritten-text-revamped-pdf-export-and-much-more-b4a0256c2cc4
but haven't tried it out. I only use reMarkable for my own notes for the
time being.

I don't think that is true. The page you linked talks about converting handwritten text to typed text; and about image quality.

There is no mention of keeping the text layer (OCRed text). They are talking about image quality (svn and png).

Sorry, I get it now. The OCR layer seems maintained now.

A guy in reddit has explained the progress.

https://www.reddit.com/r/RemarkableTablet/comments/8hc3ld/how_is_it_for_reading_highlighting_and_annotating/


that is good.

Usually $599, now with hundred dollars off in promotions but even cheaper, $120 off @ $479 on Amazon. Last Saturday on Amazon, deal of the day, was $180 flats off @ $419.

In case anyone wondering, ignore "flats", phone took over as usual, Swyping on Android. Btw Swype was abandoned too by the company who bought it, hence no longer on Play Store.

I got the Onyx Boox Note Plus for the same purpose very recently and I think the software on it works better for academic PDFs than the remarkable tablet.