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A few more days with the Move after my first 24 hours with the device, my curiosity keeps thinking about who this device is for?

In my opinion, I believe the Move is designed for two very specific groups:

  1. Existing Remarkable tablet users looking for a more portable option to refer and edit their documents on the go, while keeping their regular tablet at a home or work desk.

  2. Users looking for a sketchpad, writing and reading E Ink device to replace multiple devices into one, as small as possible package.

Most reviewers I’ve seen/read tend to lean towards thinking of the Move as a device for those in the former group; and certainly Remarkable themselves are hopeful that this is an extension of, or introduction to, a ecosystem of devices from them that customers can use seamlessly.

I fall into the latter category. This is my first Remarkable device, but I’ve owned a few other smaller E Ink devices prior. With my Kindle dying, I was looking for a portable device that could replace it and my SuperNote for writing.

While the reading experience is gimped by limited features/performance and the lack of an easy to access eBook store, I have my own ePub books not locked into an ecosystem; so the basic reading experience works for me. And while the narrow form factor is not quite as comfortable for long term writing sessions compared to even my A6-sized SuperNote, I’m happy to manage it for the extra portability of the Move.

The Move has compromises and is absolutely not cheap. This isn’t a device to buy on a whim in the hope that you might like it. However, if you fit into one of the groups outlined above, it stands alone in the E Ink market that nothing else can meet.