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have you ever wanted a less convenient e-reader that you can write on while

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introducing yakindo squibe it is the

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first Kindle you can write on it comes with a stylus comes with a stylus not

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like the remarkable where you have to buy it separately which was 50 US

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dollars but now is like 80 or something fact check that 70 or 80. so the one

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that we got has 16 gigabytes of storage that is the minimum that compared to

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eight gigabytes on the remarkable 2. to be fairly remarkable too it's pretty old

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at this point and then we bought the premium pen which is 30 more the

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difference of the premium pen is that it has a shortcut on it so you can switch

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between pen highlighter and eraser and I think that's actually a has an eraser on

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the back excellent why can't I just pull

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this out it's so it just looks easy but

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it's not Hollow it's like a little file folder inside there with these little

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sections I'm trying to pull on them can't do it

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I think this was meant to be like this but someone got there first oh

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was there a squirrel in here what is this was my wife here seriously like

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trying to pour a bowl of cereal with a box that she opened it's just like goes

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everywhere it's coming out the side just unbelievable no amount of conversations

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about it will change your behavior either you just I just think I have to

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live with this is the tablet itself we're gonna set that aside but I have

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comments looks like a little quick setup guide for Australian customers

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this is going to be a selection of replacement tips for the stylus let's

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see yeah it opens that way oh what's this ring thing just can't not

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make it lower the Rings reference the remarkables um replacement tips had a

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cool thing where there was a little slider in here to help you remove the

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tip on the existing tip installed on your stylus I don't know how to get this

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out just pull is there such a thing on here is that what this is for oh I put

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it in pinch ha metal I guess I can't just stab it on

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like I could with a remarkable setup you just put it in like this

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there we go pen tricks yeah I can do them what else is there anything else in

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there no we got a little charger here

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uh another charger it's USB a to c and

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there's a c charging port

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right speaking of uh there's a button over

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here is this that's like the uh yeah that's the lock sort of button kind of

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weird to have the charger is it weird to have the charger over there it's kind of

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sticking out the bottom if you go in landscape mode but I feel like the

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default would be portrait so maybe it would be

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over there but I can see why they would want everything on the same side but

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that's the engineer's problem that shouldn't be my problem yeah this is clearly the default look at there's the

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logo I don't know it doesn't really matter because you charge these so sell

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them they advertise the battery is lasting weeks it depends if you're just

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reading or writing depends if you have Wi-Fi on or off but I mean I have had

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times where I'm reading with this thing plugged in because like you just don't use it for a month and you want to go

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read on your lunch break or something I think it's more forgivable than on a

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phone or even a a tablet like an iPad or

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an Android tablet because you you just plug in so sell them with these also has

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these little feet which is kind of weird they're not really in the way of your

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fingers when you're holding it in any kind of reasonable way even if I put it

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into my palm I just can't feel it makes it non-slip on the table and there's no

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rocking and it's not getting scuff up the back so I guess they're appreciated

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I wonder I feel like some someone fought for those to be on here other people

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were like you're crazy but we'll let you have this one it's very thin I would say

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it's it's like less than a quarter inch thick it's definitely it has a thicker

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kind of spine on this one side seems like that's a kind of cool place to hold

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it but it actually might make it harder to change to turn pages I'll try that in

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a little bit definitely gonna be bigger than your typical Cheapo tablet so you

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know if you've got bad eyesight you can really get in the zone here let's turn

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countries alright let's start with notebooks that's the difference with

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these right so by tapping the plus icon

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where's that up here you can also add folders to keep your notebooks organized

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and your notes your notes can be multiple pages okay so templates you got

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blank you got regular lined there's different graphing people oh that's like

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a spreadsheet one interesting I'm gonna go with uh this big fat learn how to

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write take notes on your Kindle to turn the page swipe anywhere or use the

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pointer tool to tap the sides of screen okay so that just like uh other

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e-readers the screen is divided into regions and so tapping like this third

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will like Turn the page that way tapping this one turn it that way writing tools

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there's three writing tools there's just pen highlighter and eraser but there are

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different sizes or girths if you will of

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the pens undo and redo very standard

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stuff can I just swipe new page see my

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little my little thing went away we're back and if I hit my pen do I get

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different there we go five gradations let's go fine because you are

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so fine I don't know why I wrote that speed wise it feels pretty good I

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remember when I used the remarkable when you draw a line like that and lift off

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you can see your stroke complete once you've already lifted off the page the

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latency was improved for remarkable too there is still some bit of a lag but I

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think that this screen is probably a bit clearer it's the same Clarity that you

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see on the other entries in the lineup it's about 300 PPI let's see what I can

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do with shading though because on the remarkable the tip understands it when

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it's tilted and will kind of draw a little differently

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no that is like the exact same stroke it doesn't matter I oh do I have an eraser

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on here heck yeah it shows you is that like a

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preview of a racing you can see what's going to be erased and then it like

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actually erases after see how the lines of the page are more visible after I

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lift off it's not a feature of bugs kind of bizarre I want to check out the how

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light you can draw because that was one

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of the things on remarkable you couldn't do a very very light stroke without it

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cutting out being like a dotted line yeah you kind of get there's a limit you

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can see that's like becoming a broken line or it's just not even doing

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anything right now I'm just gliding on the glass I don't seem to be able to do

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any kind of like different lightness or like strength of

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of shading but I guess that's I guess that's not what their target is for this

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they just want you to be able to write little construction layouts and

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quick math notes and stuff now where am I supposed to put this pen I think

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there's a magnetic side somewhere there it is that's on there pretty good to a

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decent degree the cool thing about this pen you don't need to charge it at all how does that work whoa there's a dark

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mode what does that look like

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okay that's cool it's kind of just the photo negative I appreciate that there

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are 16 different gradations of of gray levels on this tablet so that actually

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makes it useful for not just reading books but you can read comic books

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because there's going to be some grayscale there obviously it's not

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color um but it definitely makes it more

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feature Rich and usable let's see if this button is worth thirty dollars

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click what am I shortcutting two

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still not highlighting do I have to map it or something one thing that's cool

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with this screen is you can actually change the color temperature of it which

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is something they have on their other Kindle like paper whites and stuff so

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you can go from a cool blue all the way to like orange which is nice if you're

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reading in bed which you should do it's terrific you're not supposed to do that

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though but you can if it's orange right and unlike the cheapest e-readers that I

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always get that rely on me having a light turned on this actually has LEDs

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underneath I believe there's 32 of them under the screen so because it's e-ink

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you can use this completely without the LEDs being on but with those LEDs you

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can read in the dark and you can adjust the brightness to their zero and

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attacking like oh up to 24 which would

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probably be too bright for my bedroom the thing that's cool is that you don't

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need like a super amount of brightness to be able to read in a in a sunny

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outdoor environment because reflective screens like e-rater screens even

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without LEDs they worked great in the in those environments so the brightness is

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just a bonus like the other Kindles they have like a matte anti-clare kind of

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finish not much to say about that this is quite satisfying what have I

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drawn what is that is it a box is it a book is it pointing towards you or away

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from you no one knows and shortcuts the

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default is like zero like the default's nothing or no it says it's highlighter

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but I couldn't get that working oh you can shortcut tool to a sticky note so

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that's for when you're reading books and you want to I don't think I want to test

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this in a second I don't think you can just mark up books and PDFs and stuff

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but you can add sticky notes to them yes oh what the that's the I think that's

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the highlighter it's not that you toggle to it you hold it down

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to switch to it and then release to go back to your other pen that's what's

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going on it's kind of nice though I guess that's kind of fewer actions oh

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wow now it's in left-handed mode and it'll also flip like well I guess

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rotate no it rotated this way before

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okay it'll flip that way but not this way

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fair fair enough I guess let's read some books it has all the Kindle

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functionality for getting documents onto it and you can upgrade the storage from

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16 gigabytes to 64. which is just huge for documents tap on the the page to

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place your note exactly where you want it I rarely drag

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yeah right oh handwritten what's text oh

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I can just go like this it's kind of um asymmetrical because it has a wider

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bezel in this this hand so it kind of it's offsetting where you're holding

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that keyword which is a little bit weird what if I flip it this way will it

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rotate now this only rotates 180. so

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frustrating I think I honestly would be just better off going like this

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can you see what I wrote they don't have auto correct they don't have autocorrect

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I guess brutal so that's the sticky notes what if I use my shortcut and then

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tap or I hold it while tapping there it is tap it while hold what about

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highlighting though can't I take my highlighter and highlight on the page

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that sucks is that so stupid I could see

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that there would be technical hurdles that you would have to accomplish if you

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wanted to be able to just mark up any document that you brought onto your

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Kindle like they might have to make a completely new file like a kind of a

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daughter file to save alongside of your

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books and stuff like that I could see why you wouldn't be able to mark up that file directly in it like Steve Jobs

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would have figured that out and they didn't figure that out so it feels kind

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of like an incomplete product you would expect that like the purest form of a

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Kindle you can write on would be highlighting stuff like this instead of

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swiping uh writing in the margins like the sticky notes is cool too but I want

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to be able to mark this up like a pen on a damn book and I can not only that you

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can't even use sticky notes on manga magazines or newspapers so at that point

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you just have a big Kindle you know what would be nice if you could map the back

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button to the pen because it's kind of annoying to have to swipe down or go

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back that way what other settings do we have in here warmth schedule so you can

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actually change whether the LED is blue

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or orange according to a schedule so I'll turn that on you can set time

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yourself or you can have it time to the sunrise and stuff I guess your the

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schedule you're setting is just like what time do you want this brightness to be active oh but then

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you need to allow that location access down that makes that makes sense it

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couldn't just be a drop down menu I just picked Vancouver like time zone or

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something no but we'll just take the data instead display size

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there's just two options big and less big I thought there would be like a

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sliding scale it's not that much bigger but yeah send me send me a PDF and we'll

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see if I can write on it using the email below that's what you

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want okay uh can I mark this up yes I

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can write on a PDF thank God and can I

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write a sticky note on this I can highlight I can erase I don't know

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what this hand is still I think we figured out what the hand tool is so if

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I'm in here writing I'm just drawing but if I turn my pen into a hand and I swipe

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now I've turned the page and if I tab up here now I get that so turn your pen

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into a finger another way to do this is to go like this

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or if you got two of these which is quite a privilege go that way

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doesn't even work okay that's page one I think it's a decent product I think that

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the remarkable two is Superior in some

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ways though it is older it looks just as cool and premium it looks a little

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different than this it has some features that this could stand to gain although

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you are up against Amazon's you know the whole Kindle ecosystem and you know

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buying a book on Amazon and just sending it directly to your Kindle all that

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stuff is really cool but in terms of the drawing

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um I don't think they're that different and remarkable has some drawing features

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that are cool and it's like 20 bucks cheaper at this point if you get the

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basic pen on that one but being a newer device

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um this seems a bit faster although it's not that fast

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and it has more storage which is cool I

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don't think this is too unreal unruly or unreasonable to use as an e-reader the

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remarkable's probably I think it seems a little bigger and is kind of stupider as

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an e-reader you could still easily take this along uh in your bag or in your

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suitcase on a trip but you're not gonna put it in like a jacket pocket or easily

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have it on like on the bus or something like that if you have any bag with you

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you're good to go yeah one thing I wanted to try though is what the Turning

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of pages is like when you're holding it in your left hand because it seems like

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it it affords left hand holding since it's thicker on this side that's going

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forward I think that's okay unless you're the type who likes to tap but why

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not swipe it's a world of swipes we live in when you go from the 300 for the

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remarkable two plus at least eighty dollars for the pen you got 380 whereas

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the opening price for this is 340. now

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this is kind of a good fidget toy so who should get this should you get this instead of a cheap Android tablet really

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depends on your focus if if you really want it for the note-taking and the

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reading probably would just go for this you can do those things on an Android

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tablet and you can do a lot more as well but they're not going to be as Sleek

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they're not gonna have the battery life you're not gonna be able to read

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Outdoors as easily so I don't think this is a bad product by any means so thanks

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for watching guys if you like this video maybe check out the remarkable coverage

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we've done we also had Sarah host a video on one of these e-screen drawables

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too so check that one out