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How is the Remarkable Paper pro for reading technical literature?

The Remarkable Paper Pro is actually pretty good for reading and annotating text documents, certainly in PDF form. Here are some photos (crap quality) of Brendan Burns' Designing Distributed Systems1 on my RMPP.

I've deliberately (hah!) taken these pictures side-on so that you can see the full image on screen if you merely rotate your laptop 90 degrees.

Designing Distributed Systems - front cover

Designing Distributed Systems - front cover

Same, but with the toolbar on the right

Designing Distributed Systems - front with toolbar

Lots of little pages! You can click on one to go straight to it.

Designing Distributed Systems - front with toolbar

A page with some code and a diagram

Designing Distributed Systems - page with text, code, diagram

Annotated page - red note, blue box

Designing Distributed Systems - page with annotation

One thing not shown but is awesome is the ability to add a page for your notes following a page on the PDF. Likewise, the ability to tag individual pages, which is less useful than it sounds as the RMPP has no way of managing tag hierarchies.

  1. Humble Tech Book Bundle: Software Architecture 2025 by O'Reilly.