 This is the Remarkable 2 and last year every time I pulled it out that I did the office or a terrace people ask me What's it like because it's supposed to replace your e-reader your annotations But also your note-taking but does it really a tough question to answer something? We're gonna try in this long-term review You order your Remarkable 2 online and the basic device is $3.99 But then you need your pen as well and you need something of a case So you end up spending way more to get a total package You get a sleekly designed package that could make Apple jealous and by the time you have the device running You basically have an empty slate. There are two pens you can choose from the first one is the black one with the eraser Tip which will set you back 130 euros But this eraser tip is made out of plastic and the shaft is very fragile and actually broke in my back The other option is the white pen without the eraser tip, which is 60 euros What I would advise you is to buy the one with the eraser tip even though it's more expensive But protect it well and put it in some sort of sleeve There are basically four options to get stuff on here The first one is to install an app on your computer which sends documents from your computer on to the Remarkable The second option is to install an app on your smartphone, which basically does the same the third option Which I use most the browser extension which sends the page or currently reading on to the Remarkable and The final option is to use Dropbox or Google Drive integration. There's one thing to keep in mind though You can't install or send any e-book to the Remarkable Most e-books you buy are protected by digital rights management or DRM and the Remarkable doesn't support that So most e-books you've downloaded or bought in the past won't be supported by the Remarkable Which is a very big disadvantage The second big disadvantage is that those sync services we talked about are rather expensive You pay 8 euros a month to have Dropbox or Google Drive support Now that we have documents on the device, you really start to see where the Remarkable shines And that's the reading, taking annotations and making highlights No digital device I've used comes close to this experience But this is also where the greatness of the experience ends because after you've made these annotations or these highlights You want to get them off the device and the Remarkable doesn't help you out there at all They've made a layer on top of the document which contains the extra information But they are unable to pull the information out and help you create a summary of the story You've just read so the second thing the Remarkable should be really good at is taking notes like in a notebook I've tried it extensively and it's nice to take notes on you can't write really small But that's okay. The problem again resides in the fact that I want to take those digital notes off and save them somewhere Else so it's cannibal and readable later and for that they use optical character recognition or OCR But the quality of the OCR isn't that good So if you take notes and want to have it digitalized that doesn't really work And the way they do it is by sending you an email which feels very outdated in a date of the cloud The third thing the Remarkable should be really good at is drawing at least according to the adverts I've given it to two drawing experts and both said it's a nice experience But it doesn't come close to anything you can do with a vacuum or procreate on an iPad So that's not really a use case either So you might conclude that the Remarkable 2 sucks and part of that is absolutely true But after 12 months it isn't collecting dust or my tech pile. I'm still using it every day The funny thing is that the fact that it is a single-purpose device that doesn't do anything else and doesn't Distract you in any way makes it very useful for in-depth reading and in-depth taking of annotations The fact that you have to then manually create those summaries Takes some times but actually creates a moment of pause as well The fact that it's a distraction free and single-purpose device is actually a selling point I do think that the one field where the Remarkable could improve is getting those annotations and summaries off of the device easily They do get a lot of competition though The Onksbook for example is a way better device at the same price point Which does integrate way better in the modern cloud tools we have So the main question might be would I buy the Remarkable again and the answer to that is no There are actually better competitors on the market right now and the Onksbook is the best example It has the same size as the Remarkable has a very solid writing experience But it integrates way better in the cloud experience We're very used to in our offices nowadays a device like this is very valuable and create some really deep reading Experiences but this Remarkable where it's very well marketed might not be the best option out there right now