![]() I can export anything to a pdf and load it onto the tablet. The price was steep but I’ve never regretted it. I decided on the reMarkable after watching a lot of videos about the pros and cons of the top two contenders. They are more like a sketchpad but I needed something that could approximate reams and reams of paper. I quickly realized that the lower-end tablets weren’t going to work for me. I began to look at the Sony DPT-RP1 tablet, the reMarkable, and other graphic tablets like the Bamboo Slate. I needed to read and markup my writing on paper, but paper is heavy, unwieldy, untidy, and printing out multiple drafts of my FIRST novel was giving my tree-loving soul pangs of guilt. I get stuck in a prose-polishing loop and I’ll polish the same paragraph over and over until I have one shining jewel in the middle of a muddy manuscript. I know that a lot of writers do their editing on screen but I just can’t. Or, I got really excited about a shiny new book that I wanted to chase and outlined that on a bunch of loose paper that was then also jammed into my carry-all. ![]() Or when my post-it notes of reminders fell off. Or, I had chapters 5-7 with me, but I needed 11-13. ![]() Until I began losing the pages or chapters I had made notes on. No worries, thought I, I’d print the chapters out one at a time to lessen the job right? Right. I’d purchased a nifty laser printer, but 350 pages still seemed daunting. The Problemįast forward to the end of my second draft and again I was looking at printing another 350 pages. After reducing the fonts and margins as much as possible, I got the book down to 350 8.5 x 11 pages. Hey, at over 110,000 words, it was way too much to try to squeeze out of our old ink jet printer. After typing “The End” for the first time, I sent the first draft of my book to Staples to have it printed.
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