Netsurf on Remarkable 2

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Remarkable 2NetsurfE-Reader Hacking

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Remarkable 2

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The post describes installing NetSurf web browser on a reMarkable 2 e-reader, sparking discussion about the device's capabilities and user wishes for additional features.

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paulcole

4 months ago

5 replies

> One thing I always have wished that my reMarkable 2 had was web browser.

It’s crazy how direct Remarkable is about what their devices are and then the number of people who buy them and wish they were something else.

Wowfunhappy

4 months ago

6 replies

Please show me the alternate product that is a full featured tablet with an e-ink screen so I can buy one.

fragmede

4 months ago

1 reply

I've been eyeing https://daylightcomputer.com/product but it's kinda pricey and I don't want a tablet with a web browser that has an eink screen, I want a digital piece of paper, which the Remarkable is.

Wowfunhappy

4 months ago

It's not e-ink.

wibbily

4 months ago

The Supernote, but I wouldn't bother... too gimped to be useful. The built-in apps aren't as good as Remarkable's and tend to fall over when you install third-party apps.

Hardware's slick tho. Real nice kit. Maybe someday the software will be too

paulcole

4 months ago

Huh? The thing you want may just not exist. That’s life, right?

BoredPositron

4 months ago

The boox note tablets? https://shop.boox.com/collections/noteseries

zihotki

4 months ago

May be Pocketbook will sparkle your interest - https://pocketbook.ch/en-ch/catalog/e-notes/pocketbook-inkpa...

10.3", multicolor E Ink® Kaleido™ 3, Android. The only caveat is that it's not available in US directly but ordering from Germany should not be a problem.

Pocketbook was founded in 2007 and it's quite known in Eastern Europe.

doublerabbit

4 months ago

Fujti does.

https://fujitsuquaderno.com/

myko

4 months ago

Made for an excellent hack :)

nashashmi

4 months ago

It was not good at reading pdfs before. But now it does. And now you could send it me word documents and webpages.

Now I wish it was better at reading pdfs. And could now load kindlebooks.

karim79

4 months ago

I don't think that's crazy at all. Many of us like to "value-process" stuff and that just adds more fun and function.

To give a simple example I've got smart lights installed throughout my flat and with the tiniest bit of effort I can get them to do a lot more stuff than they were designed for.

cxr

4 months ago

Remarkable sells hardware reading devices. Web browsers, just like offline PDF and EPUB viewers, are a form of reader software.

There really isn't any mismatch here; why does it seem odd for someone to (want to) be able to address and access their desired reading material—like texts produced by Project Gutenberg and Standard Ebooks, or dictionary entries like the author mentions—through the wildly successful system for identifying resources with URLs?

thenthenthen

4 months ago

1 reply

> You can find out what address you need to connect to use SSH from Settings -> Help -> Copyrights and licenses. There's a little blurb in the end of it with the password and username, and the address.

Is the SSH user:pass hardcoded?

xdrosenheim

4 months ago

1 reply

On my ReMarkable Pro, the password is always the same. Even through updates. No clear way to change it.

Eeems

4 months ago

A factory reset would result in it being regenerated

karim79

4 months ago

Also for anyone with a remarkable 1 or 2 there's fun to be had with the following:

https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable

galleywest200

4 months ago

I know this is a tad off topic, but the one feature I wish ReMarkable had included is the ability to export your highlights, at least the snap-to-text ones.

Currently I use a third party software, RCU [1], to do this (and it works well!) but one would think ReMarkable could have included this themselves when they added the snap-to-text feature for highlighting!

[1] https://www.davisr.me/projects/rcu/

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