awesome-reMarkable VS DeDRM_tools

> As much as I love the hacker spirit of cracking open hardware and software and bending it to your will (whether or not it was designed towards that end), I enjoy my reMarkable precisely because I can get away from the ubiquity of computing and needing to constantly tinker with and repair software.

Personally I completely agree with you, and could have written almost exactly that paragraph - I too have a ReMarkable (the 2nd / current version), and love using it as it ships for both note taking and especially for reading ebooks/PDFs ("especially" just because it's what I use it for more, not because that's what it's better at - in fact, it's UI for reading documents is among its weaker points and I hope they improve it in future software updates).

However it's worth pointing out that you can SSH into it, and there are a fair few 3rd party tools and hacks for it - so far I've avoided trying any of them as there's nothing that I want enough to have even a 1% risk of bricking it to worry about. But I'm tempted to start playing around with it someday.

This is the best list of stuff for the ReMarkable that I'm aware of, though I don't know how complete it is / how many released tools or guides there might be that aren't included here:

https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable

There are options for USB/wifi syncing and lots of other community mods if you're handy with a terminal: https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable

If you follow the instructions and you are fine to turn automatic updates off, you may have a lool at awesome-remarkable https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable

This sentence doesn't make sense. People apply hacks because they want to make full use of their device. reMarkable has shortcomings, yes, but they can be overcome with the software that others have written. The Awesome reMarkable link the sidebar was basically a founding document of this very subreddit.

More info can be found at awesome-ReMarkable: https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable

Use a software to manage your templates automatically. See the Awesome reMarkable list, and Ctrl-F "templates".

You can also take backups using easy, convenient, community-written software, like RCU (which I'm the author of), reMy, reMarkable HyUtilities, rmExplorer, rmAPI, and many others found in the Awesome reMarkable list.

You could try reMy, which has its own renderer. There are more rendering programs in the Awesome reMarkable list, many of which will work with 2.15 and below--just avoid anything saying 'cloud' or 'web UI'.

Your kindle requires a software update to view this content? CAN'T DOWNLOAD ANYTHING DeDRM_tools#889

In theory, you should be able to do it with both Rakuten Kobo and Amazon JP. However, you might need to use a VPN to tell them that you're in Japan because of region restriction idiocy. You may also need to claim a Japanese billing address (though it may not need to be your actual billing address; some sites do require that you provide a Japanese billing address but don't actually require that it match your credit card). Out of the two, Kobo's DRM is easier to remove. I have heard that Amazon JP has not yet been affected by the recent changes that Amazon made to make it harder to remove their DRM, but it's likely only a matter of time before we won't be able to remove their DRM anymore, because it takes too much time and effort for the folks who work on such things to continue to putting in the effort.

I believe this plugin for calibre is what is used.

If you want to convert your Kindle book to PDF, and since you have a Kindle device, follow the instructions here.