I installed koreader on my remarkable2, and it's now easily the best reading experience for manga and textbooks that I know of. I just swipe on the side of the screen once to switch back and forth, it's _so_ great.

There's no problem with that setup for standard books too, I just usually prefer a smaller/crappier ereader (ideally also with koreader) for that type of reading.

Hm, I'll check that out, although it looks like the installation process is a bit involved (my software is too new for Toltec apparently).

I took for granted that such expensive device would render at least epubs and PDFs flawlessly.

It does render epubs and PDFs flawlessly indeed and the reading experience is great. I don't know what OP is talking about.

Bonus: reading black and white comics on a remarkable feels even better than on paper.

Which books do you read that you're not bothered by the slow page turning, or not quite fitting a4ish size?

Perhaps the epub experience has improved - but I've mostly used it with White Wolf rpg pdfs (granted, they are terrible - almost unreadable even in print) as well as other rpg books - typically large format, two columns - and its awful on the rm2.

Yeah rpg sourcebooks (mine are also WW) are not a good fit for the remarkable.

In general, only short PDFs are bearable, epubs feel like they should work but they take an incredibly long time to render, which frustrates me every time.

That being said, it's absolutely incredible for writing, but I don't need that as much as I used to (take less notes now as I'm more of an IC than my former team lead/PM/IC hybrid).

I've long wondered if the rm2 might be a good fit for the djvu-format.

It's a shame there's no official way to augment the software with apps or patches - there's community software, but it feels like a really fragile system.

pdf is fine but the epub engine is limited and inferior to what I expected. The pdf reader has a serious issue with zooming. It takes too long to crop a pdf, especially after the update that made things worse (pinch and zoom).

Yeah, that part feels reallly lazy. They wouldn't even have to build something better, there is open source ereader software already that is 100x better.

Remarkable screams designed by marketing to me tbh. Features exists to sell, existing customers can suck it.

I really want to like the RM, but it just misses the mark on software quality and performance. UI is clunky and latency _just_ high enough to be anoying to me. I'll probably pre-order the RM3 if that ever comes though :)

> Yeah, that part feels reallly lazy. They wouldn't even have to build something better, there is open source ereader software already that is 100x better.

Yeah, that is annoying to me. To their credit though, they did make it easy to just install it yourself.

ePubs yes. PDFs...they render fine but making them readable means zooming and panning around, plus the zoom resets when you change pages. Although once again, it was not designed as a reader but as a writer.

I love my Onyx Boox Nova Air. Only thing is that it’s too small to read pdfs comfortably but you can make do by rotating it 90 degrees and reading half a page at a time. Let me know if you have any questions about it. I seriously use it every day for work, and pleasure.