This was really an excellent idea.

#harp

@paulk does this work with more than one page, too? How do you turn pages?
@andijah I simply swipe the screen right to left. I could also get a bluetooth page turner, connect that to the deivce and use that with a foot but I'm fine with the swipe.
@paulk interesting. Recently @tewe and I talked about tablets and sheet music and my take was that the remarkable is probably not the best solution.
Very interesting to see you working with it!

@andijah @tewe @paulk the problem with the remarkable is the software and the price. You can get the actual eInk tablet they use and rebrand from the original vendor slightly less expensive, but a comprison of tablets for musician use still noted a problem of available software.

The "gold" solution is, very unfortunately, a non-Air iPad (the Air one has only 2/3 of the max brightness and works only if you’re using it inside ever) and forScore. Very expensive, even if you get it refurbished (which is totally less bad because Apple won’t see money from that).

The eInk devices meanwhile are directing their development into the wrong direction, such as colours and animations, instead of bringing an affordable platform and good reading software that does not use animations, as well as the OS. They are also very book-focusses. No music reflow, not even meaningful cropping and all.

The smartphonish-tablet devices have the upside of having a camera which you can use to quickly snap photos of music to the crop and add to your library in a cinch. (Not the best, or even third-best, way to do that, but it works in the field.)

Their downside is the displays illuminating your face while using. You’ll also want to make sure the display brightness slider can go all the way down (which Androids are notoriously bad at), and you’ll get spied on to a lesser or larger extent of course. (Unsure how the alternate ROM scene is for Android tablets, probably not so good.)

I only have some minimum experience with this so far.

@mirabilos @andijah @tewe @paulk if forscore isn't free (idk if it is or not), then apple still sees money from that
@tewe @paulk @wyatt @andijah that’s admittedly true (if it isn’t gratis is the better word), but at least only, what, 7$50 one-time per family using it only. Yes, amortises, which is also bad, those leeching off others’ work to make stuff running on their platform promoting it… but I’d still rather it goes to them than Google, who spy more.
@mirabilos @tewe @paulk @andijah i thought apple was working on glasses with a built-in camera so i don't know if i'd go that far
they're both horrible and neither should see a dime
@wyatt @tewe @andijah @paulk ugh. (But Google already brought those to market.)
@wyatt @tewe @andijah @paulk someone crossing my path wearing one of those would be a legitimate case for physical violence… for those who can do so, anyway, I’m not the type for that.