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Sounds like the end is near, maybe:

 

Time to rip up the notepad? reMarkable's tablet aims to mimic real paper and ink

http://www.zdnet.com/article/time-to-rip-up-the-notepad-remarkables-tablet-aims-to-mimic-real-paper-and-ink/?loc=newsletter_featured_related_listing&ftag=TRE17cfd61&bhid=21388307086786271387491838272928

 

 

 

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"Bad spelling, like bad grammar, is an offense against society."

- - Good Form Letter Writing, by Arthur Wentworth Eaton, B.A. (Harvard);  © 1890

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No, there are too many papers that are different....just the basic hammered, laid, linen and marbled....not counting weight....or with luck what coating.

 

 

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Doubtful. While this is useful and may open up a future that begins to replace paper, the flexibility of pen and paper is far to important. We said the same thing about tablets years ago, but they, instead, augmented pen and paper, resulting in what we now have, where tablets are trying the combo of writing on paper with special pens and sensors to capture your writing on the device.

 

I understand the potential eventuality of replacing one with the other, but I don't see it happening any time soon, regardless of how similar the feel of the writing experience is.

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Costs more than a pen and paper or notebook.

"Don't hurry, don't worry. It's better to be late at the Golden Gate than to arrive in Hell on time."
--Sign in a bar and grill, Ormond Beach, Florida, 1960.

 

 

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If someone wants to buy me one, I would be happy to deliver a full review :)

 

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- - Good Form Letter Writing, by Arthur Wentworth Eaton, B.A. (Harvard);  © 1890

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Like how e-readers replaced books? Smart phones replaced watches? Nope.

"Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts." - Patrick Rothfuss

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Like how e-readers replaced books? Smart phones replaced watches? Nope.

Or how we all work in paperless offices...

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Wait until the next windows release and it will be obsolete and unsupported and you will have to buy v1.1333333 for it to work properly.

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Well, e-readers did replace books for me, but I'll never give up wristwatches.

It's hard work to tell which is Old Harry when everybody's got boots on.

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I can't see a tablet replacing pen and paper, or pencil and paper for that matter. There is too much convenience in a simple notebook and a pencil - with no batteries required. Paper and a writing instrument are easily more portable and less fragile as well.

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I can't see a tablet replacing pen and paper, or pencil and paper for that matter. There is too much convenience in a simple notebook and a pencil - with no batteries required. Paper and a writing instrument are easily more portable and less fragile as well.

 

I can certainly imagine that at some point the technology will advance enough so that pen and paper will be an exception instead of the norm.

 

Problems like portability, fragility, batteries, etc... will diminish over time.

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An advantage of a pen is that you can write on a handy bit of paper. An advantage of paper is that you can write on it with any handy writing instrument. Therefore, it is useful to have a pen, and to have some paper.

 

If my electronic surface is in another room, it is not with me, and I am unlikely to scatter too many of them about the house and the shed. My stylus is most probably with my electronic device, and both are much larger than a pen or two.

 

There are thus practical reasons why the uptake of the technology may be high yet it will still not mean "the end" of pen and paper.

 

I recollect that as far back as with infrared, let alone wireless or NFC, it was promoted that one could exchange virtual business cards with another person's phone. Cardboard business cards would not be needed. That flew; like a brick. There are reasons for cellulose rather than silicon business cards which go beyond the immediate exchange of data between technological items.

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Much of the world does not use electronics.

"how do I know what I think until I write it down?"

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An advantage of a pen is that you can write on a handy bit of paper. An advantage of paper is that you can write on it with any handy writing instrument. Therefore, it is useful to have a pen, and to have some paper. . . .

 

Too right. One of my bad habits my wife whinges about is me writing reading notes and to do lists on any convenient piece of paper.

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Sounds like the end is near, maybe:

Time to rip up the notepad? reMarkable's tablet aims to mimic real paper and ink

 

heck they've been saying that for over A QUARTER OF A CENTURY ;)

 

1992, Apple Newton MessagePad!

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