This is the remarkable two. And last year, every time I pulled it out that I did the office or a terrorist, people asked me what's it like. Because it's supposed to replace your e-reader, your annotations, but also your note-taking. But does it really? A tough question to answer, something we're going to try in this long-term review. You order your remarkable two online and the basic device is $3.99. But then you need your pen as well, and you need something of a case. So you end up spending way more to get a total package. You get a sleekly designed package that could make Apple jealous. And by the time you have the device running, you basically have an empty slate. There are two pens you can choose from. The first one is the black one with the eraser tip, which will set you back 130 euros. But this eraser tip is made out of plastic and the shaft is very fragile and actually broken my back. The other option is the white pen without the eraser tip, which is 60 euros. What I would advise you is to buy the one with the eraser tip, even though it's more expensive, but protect it well and put it in some sort of sleeve. There are basically four options to get stuff on here. The first one is to install an app on your computer, which sends documents from your computer on to the remarkable. The second option is to install an app on your smartphone, which basically does the same. The third option, which I use most, the browser extension, which sends the page are currently reading onto the remarkable. And the final option is to use Dropbox or Google Drive integration. There's one thing to keep in mind though. You can't install or send any e-book to the remarkable. Most e-books you buy are protected by digital rights management or DRM. And the remarkable doesn't support that. So most e-books you've downloaded or bought in the past won't be supported by the remarkable, which is a very big disadvantage. The second big disadvantage is that those sync services we talked about are rather expensive. You pay eight euros a month to have Dropbox or Google Drive support. Now that we have documents on the device, you really start to see where the remarkable shines. And that's the reading, taking annotations and making highlights. No digital device I've used comes close to this experience. But this is also at the greatness of the experience ends. Because after you've made these annotations or these highlights, you want to get them off the device. And the remarkable doesn't help you out there at all. They've made a layer on top of the document, which contains the extra information. But they are unable to pull the information out and help you create a summary of the story you've just read. So the second thing the remarkable should be really good at is taking notes, like in a notebook. I've tried it extensively and it's nice to take notes on. You can't write really small, but that's okay. The problem again resides in the fact that I want to take those digital notes off and save them somewhere else so it's cannibal and readable later. And for that they use optical character recognition or OCR, but the quality of the OCR isn't that good. So if you take notes and want to have it digitalized, that doesn't really work. And the way they do it is by sending you an email, which feels very outdated in a date of the cloud. The third thing the remarkable should be really good at is drawing, at least according to the adverts. I've given it to two drawing experts and both said it's a nice experience, but it doesn't come close to anything you can do with a vacuum or procreate on an iPad. So that's not really a use case either. So you might conclude that the remarkable two sucks. And part of that is absolutely true. But after 12 months, it isn't collecting dust or my tech pile. I'm still using it every day. The funny thing is that the fact that it is a single-purpose device that doesn't do anything else and doesn't distract you in any way makes it very useful for in-depth reading and in-depth taking of annotations. The fact that you have to then manually create those summaries takes sometimes but actually creates a moment of pause as well. The fact that it's a distraction free and single-purpose device is actually a selling point. I do think that the one field where the remarkable could improve is getting those annotations and summaries off the device easily. They do get a lot of competition though. The Onksbook for example is a way better device, at the same price point, which does integrate way better in the modern cloud tools we have. So the main question might be would I buy the remarkable again? And the answer to that is no. There are actually better competitors on the market right now and the Onksbook is the best example. It has the same size as the remarkable as the very solid writing experience but it integrates way better in the cloud experience we're very used to in our offices and how it is. The device like this is very valuable when create some really deep reading experiences. But this remarkable branch very well marketed might not be the best option out there right now.