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Welcome back to the latest episode in products that want you to do less as a

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way to maybe do more. This is the

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remarkable paper pro move and a little

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bookfolio to go along with it cuz it felt lonely. It didn't want to come in here by itself. And it appears to be a

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smaller version of the remarkable paper pro nonmove

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which is larger so it's harder to move.

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This one's called the Move because it's smaller. You can take this thing

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anywhere and no one will stop you. So, in case you didn't see our other videos

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on the other remarkable products, this company is basically all about getting

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you and all your friends and family to disconnect from social media. It's

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rotting your brain. So, they've made these products that kind of like, you

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know, they want to center you back in a more a more tactile human experience. We

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want to write on things that seem like, you know, more like uh we're writing on

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paper. And this time around, instead of the kind of larger, you know, iPad Pro

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size large tablet, they're going for a more handheld situation here with a 7.3

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in display. But we'll look more at that in a second. What else is in the box

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here? We got some real paper. Welcome to our bettering community. Oh, better

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better thinking community. I thought I read it as better thinking community

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first, like we think better than you. But it's a it's a thinking community

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that's better. Quick start guide. Turn on by pressing the power button.

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Okay. Now, our unit was bundled with a marker plus which you can buy alongside

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it or you can buy separately. And the marker plus is a little bit upgraded

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from the regular marker from Remarkable in that it's got some grip and the

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eraser on the back. But here's where we get into, you know, this company's

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approach to this whole thing because this is the only stylus that you can use

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with the Remarkable Paper Pro Move. And that's going to be a bit of a theme as

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we see. These guys want you to disconnect from all those other services

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and only use theirs instead. Bit of a trade-off, but we'll look at that a bit

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more closely uh in a second. What else is in here? A nice flat USBC cable. I

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like the [music] packaging. and additional marker tips. Does this like

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pop out or something? Oh, it just slides out. Ooh, that is smooth.

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Even when there are things about a company that would make you a little bit

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mad at them for, it's like, ah, why didn't you let people do this thing the

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way that they want to do it, like some of that goes away when you open up just

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like a little thing like this with for with extra marker tips and it's just so

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smooth. Like, they clearly just are paying attention. I love being taken

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care of. I love people showing me a good time. All right, that's what's in the

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box. You know, as long as we're unboxing stuff, I'm just going to unbox this

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bookfolio, too, because that's going to go on. This is like, you know, just a

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kind of a pro protective little thing around it that will make you feel a

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little bit more like you're not using a digital device. It's all about deceiving

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yourself.

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Ooh. Oo, that's nice, though.

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Okay, but before we put that on for good forever, let's look at the outside of

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this thing. So, on the front here, we have the 7.3 in canvas color display.

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That's actually the display is 7.3 in, but the device itself is 9 in across.

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And the display is color. It's based on the e- in gallery 3 display, if that

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means anything to you. Is there kind of like a quick setting like for like a

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screen brightness or something? Oh, I just found something. Dragging down on

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the top right gets you kind of a quick setting thing like in Android. You got

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airplane mode. What is this? Oh, that's a screen share. This is orientation

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lock. I've been wanting that because every time I'm moving it around it, it

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flips. So, now it won't do that. That's great. And we got the brightness. Are we at max brightness right now? I mean,

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it's an e- in screen, but it does have a slight backlight. Uh, you know, if you

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want that and I believe it's a fairly soft one. On some other tablets that

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we've seen, there are various there are kind of like different backlight

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settings for like a cool backlight or a warm backlight or like mixed. This is

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just got the one setting. Can we turn the lights off for a second? I will say

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like if I'm in a pitch black room, if

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I'm like right here, it's okay, you

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know, like it's it's it's enough. >> I think you're probably right, Bel, that

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it is more of a front light than a backlight. On the top we have the power

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button and we can glimpse this anodized

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aluminum frame that they have around the entire device giving it a pretty premium

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look with these ridges. Uh that's about the same the same sort of design they

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had on the nonmove paper pro. On this side we have I believe what is the

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magnetic attachment point for the pen. Yes. Oh, not a pen, a marker. Do not

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mess this up. [laughter] Wow, that's strong. And just like Yeah, I remember

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that about the last time. They like their strong magnets.

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[laughter] Does it charge it? Yes, that charges.

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FYI. On the bottom, we have nothing

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except the USBC port that will be used

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to [music] charge the battery inside, which will last for 2 weeks. They say

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that's better than less than that. It's a 2334

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milliamp hour battery and Remarkable says that it'll charge to 90% in less

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than 45 minutes. So like you're and you're only doing that every Fortnite.

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Interestingly, not a game you can play on this. Oh, the back. The back is not

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the same as the anodized aluminum frame. This is some sort of like poly composite

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of some kind, but it's got this like cool texture to it that's sort of

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teasing you. these feet still, even though it's a lot more uh of a portable

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device, they still have these nice features that allow you to kind of put

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it on a surface and have it just stay there while you draw. I hate it every

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time I draw and then when the paper moves cuz I'm so strong cuz my muscles,

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I can't help it. So, as I said, you cannot play Fortnite on this thing. I'm

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sorry everyone, but you can do a lot of other stuff. And we're going to find out

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I'm going to fit it into the bookfolio. But there's something pleasurable about

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taking a fabric covered something and

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opening it like that. And this is really what Remarkable is all about. They're

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like, let's get back to basics. Let's, you know, feel as if we're using

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paper again. Pretend you didn't know that Android and iOS can do all of these

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millions of things. So, we're into the interface here. It's called Remarkable

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OS. it's their own Linux-based uh operating system. And that can be a plus

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and a minus. They can shape things in their own image, but you're also lacking

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some of the interoperability that's already baked in if you use something

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like an Android operating system. I've talked about this before, but like other

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e- in tablet makers will have a distribution of Android. They'll have a

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Android based operating system and that isn't like exactly stock Android but you

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can [music] do a lot of things that Android can do. You can you expect the

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settings to be there that you want and in this one it's a custom thing. You

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have to kind of learn how everything works from scratch. I found my way into

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settings which is nice. You know there's some things to learn that like there's

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not really a home screen per se. I mean like this is sort of the home screen. my

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files. The experience here is less about using an app that is like maybe calling

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to a cloud somewhere and more about you're doing stuff on your device. When

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we first covered these guys, uh I remember thinking like, okay, I'm

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looking at the list of things you can do with the connect cloud services and it

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is pretty it's pretty limited. Like, okay, what if I just want to text

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something to somebody? I just drew this amazing picture. sun in the sky, grass,

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[laughter] and [snorts] I'm like, "Wow, this is so

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good. I want to send this to my 5-year-old." Even though you're connected to Wi-Fi and you can sign in

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to various services, you cannot just

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text something to somebody, you know, you can't just attach it. You can send

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it to their cloud service that can sync with your desktop and stuff. So, you can

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there there is back and forth there, but they are limiting the pipeline. They're

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limiting the pipe. I did mention that there's an eraser on the other end of

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this marker plus that you can use to just I guess erase a chunk of what you

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drew. Oh, look. I made Alfred Hitchcock. One of the things that Remarkable uh

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makes a big deal about is saying that this is going to feel like paper. And I

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got to say that it very much, you know, does a lot more so than, you know,

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another tablet. I don't know if you know, you kind of you can kind of feel

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that texture. You feel the uh roughness.

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I I thought I tapped that circle before, but I must have like just slightly

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missed it. So, you add you can you can

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do colors by tapping that little circle up in the corner. And you can make your

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stroke thicker or thinner. Choose different. Ooh, magenta paintbrush. That

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That's a That's the thickest paint brush we got, guys. Really? Can I press go

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thin and press to go thicker? They do

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have some pressure sensitivity. Okay. So, there there it is. You got you got

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color if you really want it. So, their note-taking interface here is going to

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be somewhat familiar to people who have seen tablets like this before. But if

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you haven't, you know, it's not trying to be a Photoshop replacement. It's just

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trying to give you some basic tools that you can use to take notes or sketch

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things or just get something out of your head and onto this thing instead. You

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have three fonts to choose from.

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[laughter] It's like when you use an Apple device and you come across something and you're

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just like that's so Apple. Like there are various things in this thing where

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it's like that is so remarkable. You know, in terms of I one thing I haven't

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really talked about yet is the refresh rate and the general sort of like

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usability of like a touch screen. That's something that e in screens struggle

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with. But as you can see, it's if you give it a second to refresh after you

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use it, it's fairly usable and responsive. You know, I can zoom in,

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zoom out, kind of see where I'm at, and then let go, and it'll kind of be like,

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"All right, that's where we are." It's annoying if you're not used to eing

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screens. This is pretty good. Uh, compared to some of the eing tablets

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that I've looked at, like, you know, at least I'm not like, "Ah, I'm just trying

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to do this." Like, I know what's happening here. Oh, this is this is my

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note that I made. Uh-oh. Cloud limit reached. Without connect, documents stop

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syncing after 50 days of inactivity. Reactivate cloud storage and sync

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documents across all devices. It's been longer than 50 days since we drew this

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thing. Oh, it'll still be there in your cloud, but you can't like modify it.

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Despite those limitations, you can go into this integrations section and it

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says integrate with you can use setup. You can use your own cloud storage. So

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you can connect your one drive, your Google drive or your Dropbox and access

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it on your tablet. If you want to send

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anything that's where kind of connect is

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uh that's that's where you need connect. [music] I mean you can present with

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screen share. I guess it's like you that's put it on another display. You

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can send it by email and those are the only two options here without connect.

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If if you're all about just using this as like a receiving device, [laughter]

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then then you probably don't need Connect. Otherwise, they want you to use

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it their way. But what if you just want to use it as an e-reader? Is this how we

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I'm swiping. I'm tapping. How do we go

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to the next page, people? Oh. Oh. Oh, swipe on the bottom. You got to swipe on

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the bottom. So, I have gotten back into reading uh in the past year or two, and

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I'm reading almost entirely ebooks on my phone. So, I'm used to kind of just

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tapping on the right side of the of the screen, and that is not what everyone's

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so surprised. It's fine. I use dark mode. Companies like Remarkable and the

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Minimal Phone and stuff are saying that it is a hardware and software problem.

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And I think that's definitely part of it, but I think that like, you know,

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it's going to be up to each individual person to take a look at these devices

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and listen to people like me who are actually using them and kind of like trying to get across to you what it's

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like to be like, [music] is getting a new device going to solve

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this issue? Or do I just kind of need to maybe have a time limiter app? I love

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reading ebooks on my phone. I'm sorry. Okay, I mean, I'm not sorry. I won't

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apologize now for all of that kind of friendly criticism that I'm giving

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towards Remarkable for this like very pipeline walled garden approach that

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they have to, you know, like making you use the tablet the way they want to. Uh,

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their connect service isn't that bad.

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It's three bucks a month or $30 a year. You get a 50-day free trial, but it is

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just hard to justify. If I knew someone who's paying for that, I would I would

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have some questions for them. I don't know. Boos, right? We all know BS. They

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use Android and you can I don't think they have any restrictions on that kind of stuff, do they? We're going to fact

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check that. The device itself, the Remarkable Paper [music] Pro Move starts

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at $450. The Marker Plus is another $50 if you

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want that. The folio here is anywhere

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from $70 to $140 depending on the

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material that you get it in. This is I mean that's adding up compared

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to the remarkable paper pro nonmove which is $630 bucks starts [music] at.

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So you know it's I feel like this the one particularly is not quite at that

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point where it's like obviously overpriced. Like you could make an

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argument for spending 450 bucks, 500 bucks with the thing on something that

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you think is going to like if you're a writer or you're an artist and you're

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like, I really I could really use a device like this that is like a

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sketchbook [music] but also allows me to kind of stay connected to a certain

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degree. It has extra tools. I can do color. I can annotate documents. [music]

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You know, the the the use case is there for a certain type of person. I think

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I'm just continually asking, do we need separate devices for that or can we have

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devices that are still smart and just, you know, uninstall Tik Tok or

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something? And the answer is no. Thanks

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