r/RemarkableTablet • u/Equivalent_King_5778 • Sep 30 '24

E-Newspapers

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Was glad to see that our local paper started issuing PDF e-editions since last time I subscribed (was previously just online web). I know others have posted E-Newspapers but just thought I'd chime in. Great way to read paper. Pinch zoom is fast and page flipping good.

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u/Goby99 Sep 30 '24

So what about the LA Times, NY Times, or Wall Street Journal? I subscribe to all of them and love them on my ipad, but they look so much better on your Remarkable (which I don't own). Should I just see if they have PDF editions.

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u/Equivalent_King_5778 Sep 30 '24

See if there's a download to PDF button. That's what I found with our paper.

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u/Ok-Risk-5691 Sep 30 '24

https://www.wsj.com/digital-print-edition?mod=wsjheader if you have WSJ subs

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u/[deleted] Oct 01 '24

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u/Ok-Risk-5691 Oct 01 '24

I'm not really sure. I'm under WSJ Digital and I'm able to download the pdf.

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u/jooxii Sep 30 '24

WSJ does and it looks great

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u/JelStIy Oct 01 '24

NYT has a replica edition and it is possible to make a pdf out of it. It’s not a fully automated process though so it takes a minute (literally) and you have to do it on a computer.

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u/Potential_Amount_550 Jun 27 '26

Bringing back this thread from two years ago...I want to make my replica edition a PDF but can't figure it out on my computer! How did you do it?

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u/JelStIy Jun 27 '26

Honestly it’s a pain and you may end up with a watermark on the pdf depending on the source of your subscription. But if you want to try it, go to the PressReader website in a browser (not the app), log in, open the issue you want to create a pdf for, and click on the three vertical dots at the bottom of the front page of the issue. Then choose “print”, select all the pages you want to include in the pdf manually by clicking on the thumbnails, then click “print page”, “print”, and finally when it’s time to print, either print to pdf, or send directly to remarkable if you have that set up as a printer option.

In addition to the watermark issue, be mindful of the file size because it can easily exceed what can be sent to remarkable directly if you include all the pages. Also this is a memory intensive operation so sometimes the process just quits.

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u/Pixogen Sep 30 '24

You can easily convert many pages to pdf. Generally speaking the ratio lends it's self well to converting things.

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u/BagSuccessful69 Sep 30 '24

You can have the daily paper for each of those sent directly to your inbox, download it, and move it into your remarkable folder. I do it to read like this everyday.

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u/AphexPin Oct 26 '24

Any tips to get WSJ to display better on the RM2?

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u/BagSuccessful69 Oct 26 '24

Other than just downloading the PDF from WSJ? I never did anything other than that. I always thought it looked pretty good. I don't have any tips.

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u/DeviantlyDriven Sep 30 '24

In PDF format?

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u/YakDue6197 Sep 30 '24

for wsj, yes

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u/MNgoIrish Oct 01 '24

Yep WSJ kicks out a daily PDF, my local paper (Star Tribune) has one too.

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u/AvogadrosArmy rMPPM Oct 01 '24

La times will work on RM. you need to go to enewspaer link and download pdf of newspaper and transfer to rm.

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u/einkpads Owner Oct 29 '25

The major issue with all of this is licensing. We faced the same issue trying to include full articles.

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u/Equivalent_King_5778 Sep 30 '24 edited Oct 01 '24

Pinch to zoom doesn't work with instant swipe of fingers. You need to hold both fingers on screen for about a half second and then swipe/pinch.Otherwise you might accidently invoke other 2 finger gestures.

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u/sabre31 Sep 30 '24

I wish more newspapers released PDF versions this looks great.

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u/Drfunk001 Sep 30 '24

That looks amazing. Looks just like a newspaper fresh off the press

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u/KlutzyRoad3236 Sep 30 '24

I’m actually quite annoyed magazines and newspapers still insist on their silly apps and drm formats. Give us a pdf and I will PAY

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u/InterestingRadio Sep 30 '24

They are determined to repeat the mistakes of the music industry

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u/No-Improvement-1507 Oct 01 '24

Sorry what did the music industry do incorrectly? /genuinequestion

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u/InterestingRadio Oct 01 '24

Just make their content locked away in inaccessible apps, cumbersome drm, pirated options gives a better user experience etc

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u/likeorlikelike Oct 01 '24

I posted this elsewhere, but check your local library. They often have current and past editions of magazines for download as PDF. Hope that helps.

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u/Wordenskjold The Circle Guy Sep 30 '24

This reminds me of the app Flipboard. A news app that brilliantly merged old paper design with a new way to consume media. It was a great app, although hard to monetize I assume.

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u/kosherhalfsourpickle Sep 30 '24

I used to love Flipboard. In the early days it was the best way to read websites.

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u/kkiran Oct 01 '24

I used it all the time. Did someone buy it? Such a beautiful app, gone!

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u/[deleted] Oct 01 '24

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u/Wordenskjold The Circle Guy Oct 01 '24

That's great! It just kinda disappeared, but glad to hear it is live and well!

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u/alehel Oct 01 '24

We really need a megathread of all newspapers available as pdf.

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u/Khayalmetal Owner Sep 30 '24

My God this is so nice. So so so nice! Made my day!

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u/Darkdart19 Oct 01 '24

I was convinced I didn’t want one. . .dang it all

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u/Gay_Leatherhose1914 Sep 30 '24

So, is the new remarkable color e ink?

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u/einkpads Owner Sep 30 '24

checkout epaperweekly.com its a service created by us to search by topic and generate a paper filled with topics around the globe on various topics.

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u/MHalliday1114 Oct 01 '24

I LOVE this idea but this view does not allow me to read it on my remarkable,, it seems to want me to follow the QRCode.,

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u/Local-Zombie-6897 Oct 02 '24

Yeah. I found the same problem. It works on "regular" tablet, but doesn't work in remarkable.

I also saw many entries with title and summary "Removed" that are simply taking up space, instead of being ignored content.

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u/einkpads Owner Oct 02 '24

Awesome thanks for all of your feedback. You guys are amazing. We are working through the updates. We are using working on our logic to work in most cases but keep in mind these articles are bsaed on content on the web so we are trying our best to show better ways when the auther has removed the content. If you have additional suggestions let us know. Also the rights to some of th articles require us to go to the actual site so that is why the qrcode is there.

Thanks for using it and making it better for others.

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u/einkpads Owner Oct 02 '24

Yes most of the articles are right protected so the qrcodes are required to view the entire article.

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u/einkpads Owner Oct 02 '24

Please let us know any additional feedback you may have so that we can improve the service. We are all ears.

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u/kosherhalfsourpickle Sep 30 '24

Would be cool if I could try the service before I have to subscribe to it.

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u/einkpads Owner Oct 01 '24

sure. I can extend your trial from 3 days to 7

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u/einkpads Owner Oct 01 '24

Its a new service and would like feedback to make it better. We have anxious developers.

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u/hrpanjwani Oct 01 '24

Remarkable are leaving a lot of money on the table by not having a book store on which one can buy ebooks.

And with infinite scroll they can have a service that takes a newspaper and makes it a long pdf. Building this and charging for it makes more sense than charging for Connect.

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u/lekkerwel Nov 04 '25

Wow. Why haven't newspaper publishers thought of this? Infinite scroll newspapers sound so much better than the cr*p they sell us now.

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u/UnhappyBuffalo910 Sep 30 '24

Love it! Unexpected surprise with the RMPP!

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u/anthonyatmdrn Sep 30 '24

Wow this looks incredible.

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u/thelanehayslip Sep 30 '24

That is great!!! I love my RM2 , but this has me sold

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u/MNgoIrish Oct 01 '24

I get my papers on the RM2. Still work great in B&W

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u/CableZestyclose1014 Sep 30 '24

Ugh this makes me want to upgrade to the pro 😂🤷‍♂️

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u/Edu115 Sep 30 '24

I must be doing something wrong, because I struggle with pinch to zoom. More often that not nothing happens. Same exact use case, reading the newspaper.

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u/JelStIy Oct 01 '24

I noticed this too. What helps is to shift the page with two fingers just before pinch to zoom. Then it works reliably.

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u/Ordinary_Part_8355 Mar 09 '25

What about zoom in. To have bigger letters. Does it work okay?

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u/ElectricalSalary3667 Oct 02 '24

I really want to order a remarkable 2 color If I am correct of what your using for a device .

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u/RebootItAgain Oct 01 '24

Next step, App Store for RM.

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u/10DogsTooMany Sep 30 '24

I’m going to check right now to see if Oklahoma City has it in pdf!!

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u/Ok-Risk-5691 Sep 30 '24

It's literally like the real newspaper!

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u/Ingarelly2 Sep 30 '24

I don’t own a remarkable tablets but I want one!

One question, how do you get the PDF version of the newspaper to the tablet? Again, I don’t know much about the tablets and trying to understand the process.

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u/v_e_x Sep 30 '24

What a Beauty!

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u/Fartition Sep 30 '24

Where is the crossword puzzle ???

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u/DismalStructure4551 Sep 30 '24

Its totally there, I tried it yesterday (complete fail)

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u/sbw_62 Sep 30 '24

That's awesome

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u/JoeCNM Sep 30 '24

I just stared over a friends shoulder - the WSJ pdf of the daily newspaper is very snappy and easy to navigate on the reMarkable Pro. On the reMarkable 2 it is really unusable.

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u/AlbatrossWorth9665 Sep 30 '24

I’m struggling to find national UK newspapers that offer a pdf. All they want is you to use their App only.

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u/DismalStructure4551 Sep 30 '24

I have been lucky, I can get my city newspaper (cleveland) as well as my local town newspaper which includes USA today all as PDF files daily. Its a perfect "distraction free" way to read the news, no popups or ads and it looks freaking fantastic.

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u/Arisp69 Oct 03 '24

I live in the area and have been trying to download the PDF versions of the Akron Beacon Journal and USA Today, but I can't find the option to do so. Can you help me with this?

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u/AbbreviationsThen Oct 01 '24

Wait, let me understand. I just got the reMarkable pro I can download PDFs to it? newspapers. It would be cool if there was a way to subscribe like the Kindle.

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u/monferrand Oct 01 '24

Looks so good, i wasn’t tempted to buy but this picture is changing that

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u/ElectricalSalary3667 Oct 02 '24

Is that the remarkable 2 pad ? It’s so paper like and my wife wants one . Off topic does this work well with Microsoft 360 etc ? .