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Do you need an #European e-reader and tablet?
The reMarkable 
is a very serious European alternative created by a Norwegian startup.
To avoid temptations, if you don't need one, don't visit their website or watch their videos, otherwise you may end up buying one, as we did. We love it but it's not cheap, as they only produce it in small quantities.
The reMarkable is an E Ink writing tablet designed for reading documents and textbooks, sketching, and taking notes. It's designed to feel like writing on paper.
What we like the most:
- you can read #ebooks or documents in various formats, including pdf. It's like a Kindle. And you can make notes in your ebooks, for example.
- it REALLY feels like you're writing and sketching on paper. It's impressively well done 
- there are many of different templates you can use and download on the internet 
- you can write notes by hand and convert them into digital text. It can even translate your handwritten text into another language 
- you can also automatically save your files in the cloud and in your computer. 
If you're interested, you can find more information on their website, which is full of useful tips.
Do you have any too? We'd love to know what you think! 
@ueeu They’re VC funded and haven’t had their exit. That exit could be to anyone and anywhere. Elon Musk could buy them tomorrow.
He could buy any private European company anyway, couldn't he? If we think like that, no one needs to boycott any US company because it's useless, EU alternatives may be sold in the future to Musk anyway...
@ueeu A company without VC doesn’t have to exit (sell). A company with, does. This is why I’m against VC-backed startups getting EU funding and why I said it makes us “an unpaid research and development department for Silicon Valley” when addressing the European Parliament (because if they fail, we pick up the cost with our taxes. If they succeed, they get snatched up by the Googles of the world.) It’s also why I suggested we fund independent organisations in the EU from the common purse for the common good that, if and when they do succeed, cannot be sold off.
https://ar.al/2019/11/29/the-future-of-internet-regulation-at-the-european-parliament/
@aral @ueeu We need to do it in a way that fits us.
On thi subject an interesting article from @bert_hubert
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/is-europe-just-not-good-at-innovating/
