So it's worth noting I had an original reMarkable from when they first launched ages back. And I seriously dug it. I wanted an eInk tablet with a big screen and the ability to write notes has some appeal. (This is complicated. I love writing notes and doodling. I also have absolutely hideous handwriting that I can struggle to read myself if I'm not taking care.) Ultimately though I wound up moving on from it and while I've been curious about how they've been doing, I hadn't really looked all that closely in some time. That being said, the Paper Pro really caught my attention when it dropped by having a relatively novel eInk display using Gallery 3, which is substantially less dark than Kaleido 3 displays. Which kind of leads us to where we are here. I really dig the BOOX Note Air 4C. But I just wasn't using it enough. The screen being darker, and smaller really makes it so that I NEED my glasses on to really read bigger RPG PDFs comfortably. (On that note, another change since I got this device is that I'm sporting glasses these days. My 40s are swinging hard.) So I grew more and more tempted to either go back to using my iPad for everything, or pick up some other device. Enough that I wound up selling the Note 4C to a friend and found myself picking up the Paper Pro. On top of that, my family has seriously been stressing me out and I found myself making a spur of the moment stress splurge. I was enjoying using the Paper Pro a lot but it's a seriously big boy to carry around. The Paper Pro Move however.. yeah. I have both now. ![[RMTwins.jpeg]] With that in mind I'm gonna talk about these some, but will focus a bit more on the Paper Pro itself first. Then a bit more about how the Move factors into things. In short though, the general user experience is just incredibly polished. So let's be up front. This thing is a decadent purchase. It's really god damn slick, but I would be hard pressed to say it's something I needed. I have an iPad Pro, with an Apple Pencil no less. But the writing and doodling experience here is leaps and bounds better. There's just no real comparison. My handwriting is shit, but I do like the more focused approach to note taking this way. Honestly more so than I expected. I initially thought I would be mostly using this for reading RPG PDFs and for marking up [character sheets](RPPSheet.jpeg), along with [notes within games](RPPNotes.jpeg). But I was enjoying using it for notes in general so much that picking up the Move become appealing just so I can easily have that in my bag and with me on the go. Gallery 3 is stunning. Kaleido 3 is fantastic, but man is it dark. You get substantially more grey screen and outside of direct sunlight you just need a backlight to make it work. Not true for Gallery 3. Though I must admit how it's pulling off such convincing blacks with JUST CMY hurts my head. It's not the blackest black on the page, but it's certainly close enough. Overlight's cover here really does a good job highlighting how well colors show up and pop on this thing. The refresh process is.. *interesting*. If you haven't seen it before I recommend looking it up. Kaleido 3 is more akin to your classic eInk refresh when you turn the page. Gallery 3 is a fair bit more psychedelic. It makes sense. K3 is really only dealing with white and black particles. Color is coming from a filter on top. (Hence the darker screen!) G3 is being created from CMYW particles. That's twice as many to shift each refresh and believe me, it shows. I think this is absolutely fine if you're reading something. But I wouldn't want to be quickly skimming a PDF for reference material with it on the regular. ![[RPPOverlightColor.jpeg]] The Connect subscription they have does a really good job keeping things in sync across both devices, as well as anything else I'm needing to pull my notes or documents up on. My understanding is you still get the essential functionality without it. Including documents staying in the cloud for 50 days from their last time being touched. Which seems pretty fair. Though I mentioned I had an original reMarkable. One kindness the company did for folks that bought in early that I still have via keeping my account is I've got a free Connect sub for the foreseeable future. **NICE** One feature that has impressed me the most, even though I'm unsure how much I'll be using it is the handwriting conversion. I repeat, my handwriting is atrocious. I know it. Believe me I know it. But this can reliably convert both my print and cursive writing. That truly astounds me. Almost embarrassingly so. The Move is the perfect size to pick up and carry. Notes started on the Pro and viewed on it are gonna require some panning to get through, but I've already picked up a habit of just starting some frequently scribbled on the go notes on the Move from the get go. ![[RPPMDesk.jpeg]] The eReader experience here isn't the strongest. That's worth noting. It handles EPUBs fine, but DRM free is a must. So you'll need to potentially break and convert to read on here. PDFs are great out of the box, ESPECIALLY on the Pro. The system might struggle on extremely large PDFs. But by and large my TTRPG PDFs, which are the big ones I'm most likely to pull up here, work really well. The syncing even keeps where I'm at in a book the the same across devices like you'd expect. Though most RPG PDFs are gonna be fair too petite on this guy. I'm still sorting out how this impacts my work flow for some things. Obsidian is my primary digital note keeper. I don't see that changing. Especially when I need things I'll be referencing on the regular. But for notes I want to be more immersed in, this is really nice. I've started to write down my notes for therapy and creative projects I wanna work on more this way and expect that to continue. I haven't ruled out converting anything I need to reference longer term to text and pulling into Obsidian as well given how easy they've made that. That all being said, I'm still getting into and enjoying these two splurge purchases, a lot. reMarkable was onto something when they launched their first device. But they've really committed to the bit and it shows. The user experience from the hardware, to the software, writing and interacting is just super smooth. I'll just off with another showing off of the screen. This time using Shadow Scar's PDF cover as an example on both devices. (Another game I really wanna get to the table soon.) ![[RPPComparisonSS.jpeg]]