Does the reMarkable adapt to left-handed people? If you're left-handed, don't worry. A few of our colleagues are also left-handed. They want to make sure all lefties have an excellent experience with their reMarkable device.
You'll be able to set up your reMarkable to left-handed mode when you first set up your device. We've also made it easy to switch between right-handed and left-handed modes in the main settings.
I think that's talking about the first reMarkable. reMarkable 2 looks very optimized for right handed use.
But I'll be honest--I don't purchase "left-handed" notebooks or use them backwards or left-handed books or anything so maybe it doesn't actually matter as much as right-handed people think it does when righties writing articles imagine what lefties think.
The original was designed for both hands in the software. I think it's likely the new one will be as well, and any insinuation by the author otherwise is probably wrong.
I think that was just misleading fluff. I'm left-handed and I have a current gen reMarkable. It has a good left-handed mode. It looks to me like the metal strip on the left side is meant more as a mount point for the cover. I don't think they neglected lefties in the design of this device. IMHO, the extra space on the left side from the metal strip makes it easier for a left-handed person to rest their palm while writing.
It does look like they support some kind of left-hand mode in the settings, but it's practically impossible to find this on their website or what it actually means in practice. Very disappointing given about 10% of people are left-handed (including me).
I own the 1st gen and it has a left hand mode. Basically the UI gets mirrored. The 1st gen device itself is left-right symmetric, so it works well. The 2nd gen has the metal bar on the left, so not sure how well it works on it.
[On the original, you could not] rotate the device 180 and use it normally, but you could click a toggle in the settings which would reflect the UI laterally, for left-handed people.
Well this sucks if it is not leftie friendly as the price and features had me sold.