>The Freewrite is a $500 word processor. The device, which has Wi-Fi, a 5.5-inch e-ink screen and a mechanical keyboard, is designed to be a single-purpose writing tool. Files on the device are stored in plain text and can sync with Dropbox, Google Drive and Evernote.
>The device — intitally called the Hemingwrite — raised nearly $350,000 on Kickstarter at the end of 2014.
>Today, the Freewrite is available for pre-order in a 24-hour flash sale for $449. The price will go up to $550, and is expected to start shipping in March.
/lit/, explain yourselves.
>>7745803
>$500
>24-hour gimmick/pressure sale for $449
>The price will go up to $550
>not even rtf text
You'd have to be really stupid to buy this.
Can you browse /lit/ with this thing?
>>7745803
I know they have to make profit, but it's hardly worth $500.
I could see people (hipster trash) buying this if it was around $200.
>forking up shekels instead of learning how to discipline yourself
Sounds about right.
orrrrr I could buy a mechanical keyboard for 90 dollars and use the rest of the money on 2 cheap black prostitutes and write about it.
>>7745870
Robert Gover pls go.
I got this instead.
>>7745803
Only wannabe self publishers buy this, deluding themselves into thinking they'd be gifted writers if it weren't for their easily distracted, yet beautiful and creative minds. But with this gadget they'll finally be able to churn out their bestselling Romantic Urban Fantasy Saga and reap the earthly rewards they deserve.
>>7745803
$500 is absurd. Aren't there like $200 chromebooks?
There are also a million apps that disable your internet browser if you have that much of a self control problem.
Ridiculous.
>>7745803
God damnit, so close yet so far. I want a fucking writing tool that's basically that but with an actual screen. Just boot it up and get Microsoft Word.
Is that so much to ask for?
One benefit of being forced to use a library computer to complete one's opus is that the repressive internet filters preclude any worthwhile distractions (especially of an erotic nature). At first the notion of having to share my immediate space with members of the local community and older individuals who no-doubt come here to make friends or escape the misery of their homes repulsed me and made me very upset indeed at the fact my financial state meant that my own personal home laptop could not be repaired. But five books later and I can honestly say that the library will likely be the place where the final installment of my memoir will be completed and where my future novels might also be completed in full. It's rather like being in a prison I suppose, with a degree of enforced discipline serving to make up for any lack of discipline you yourself may lack.
>>7745803
For 500 dollars you can buy a used typewriter and a cheap scanner
Yes you'd have to be really naive to buy this. Just get OmmWriter or something and unplug your router, or just use an add on to block internet sites.
i'd buy an alphasmart if ebay Can shipping wasn't horrible. pen and paper til then.
just get like a IBM laptop from the 90s for $10 or something goddamn
>>7745943
should have gotten theBetaDumb 500
>>7745994
>6 volume memoir
Are you memeing?
>>7746033
great meme
enjoy a cat girl
>>7745803
This doesn't even look good.
>>7746067
disgusting f a m
>>7745994
If I didn't know about gaskun's personal writing habits/methods/his home I would say this was him spot on.
>>7745994
Honestly I never get any writing or studying done when I'm at home, but if I'm in a café or library it feels like I have to feign some activity and purpose for being there or else people would notice.
It makes me do what I'm supposed to.
>>7746065
you've never seen memoir-anon on here before? dude's a fucking legend
>>7745994
you again.
>>7745994
i-is this copypasta?
Ok maybe I don't understand this or maybe I do and it rightfully makes me rage but,
>raised nearly $350k on Kickstarter
>other people's monies
>typing machine with wifi sync option.
>screen doesn't seem to even tilt
>selling for $550
>to make a profit
Did con-artists just go legit?
>>7746193
Nope it's memoir-chan sperging out again.
>>7746204
you do know that unless you mass manufacture and pay slave wages to chinese workers, electronics are expensive to manufacture.
>>7746208
This is the first time I encounter him. I kinda like him; he sounds like an middle age, challenged individual who will tell the civil war history to you while looking at the floor when you ask him if he has seen your toothbrush. Also, genius comma-averse style.
>>7745803
You could just turn off your wifi. Or go outside and write with a pen and notebook. Why would anyone pay 500 bucks for this?
..... shut up and take my money 0_o
>>7745943
Tfw I actually got to use one of these In grade 6-7 and I thought I was so fucking cool being the only kid in class not having to write. I remember my dad being so disappointed when I brought that thing home for homework one night.
Pen and paper. Screens = shit for literary art
>>7746943
>Screens = shit for literary art
This. tmux is much better.
>>7746107
Literally no one cares. I've sat in libraries and cafes writing for hours at a time and it wasn't an issue.
>>7747022
yeah i imagine autists also tell themselves this about everything they do
I would buy it for $100, just because I always lose my pens.
500 burgers is too much for this, specially because their 'less features is better!' nintendo-like mentality is cancer
>>7747035
>'less features is better!'
I really don't get that. If you want to have a distraction-free pure text editor, why wouldn't you use vim or emacs? Those actually have capabilities that are useful to a writer, rather than notepad.ext without even a menu.
>there are people who don't already have a stand alone dedicated writing nettop with a portrait monitor,a mechanical keyboard, a minimal linux install and pyroom at a standing desk
>>7745988
Just get a junk computer and never connect it the internet/uninstall everything but word
>that costs $500+
>when you could buy a decent laptop for $300
Seriously, a shitty netbook is 10x better than this thing. Why would someone buy this?
>>7747098
>not writing with a vintage one of a kind pen used by your favorite author on tanzanian papyrus
Wew indeed, might as well just write on your phone
>>7746993
>isc license cuck
end yourself
How is this even meant to help? If you don't have the self-control to use an ordinary computer without resorting to distractions, then this makes no difference.
You're better off getting rid of the actual distractions than buying what amounts to as another distraction device to distract you from your usual distractions.
>>7745988
So a cheap netbook with a minimal linux distro with just a text editor on autostart?
That's very possible.
>>7747063
The entire draw for this device is the e-ink display and the mechanical keyboard, which implies a long battery life as well.
HOWEVER, I've drawn a mockup of something I think is infinitely superior, using things most of us already have.
Why an ereader doesn't support keyboards is beyond me.
>>7747130
>not going even farther than that
>not thinking up an even more convoluted and ridiculous way of writing for predictable yet enjoyable forum fun
yah
Why not just buy a laptop and just don't get on the internet when you write?
>>7747178
Do it yourself then you fuck
>>7747022
You missed my point.
I actually get to write there too instead of just sitting around looking at my phone or whatever. It's perfect.
>he actually needs to force himself to write without distractions
Don't bother continuing, it's going to be dogshit
>>7747143
Make it emacs and you can also use it as a shell.
>>7747098
gentoo, or lfs?
>>7747128
*M I S S E S P O I N T*
>>7747204
this kinda
i can legit write in the middle of a social gathering, it dosent matter
>can't make footnotes
>can't write plays
>can't insert special characters
>can't write letters with accents
>can't write in non-roman languages
>mfw I could really use something like this but I do all of these things in my writing all the time
Can't you buy a shit notebook with that money and just don't use Internet with it?
>>7745803
i can't see anyone actually capable of writing buying this shit
>>7745994
Used to do this. Now I don't have internet in my apartment anyway though, so I've been writing my stories on my phone with a bluetooth keyboard.
>>7745803
but where do you plug in the vibrator
>>7747158
>Why an ereader doesn't support keyboards is beyond me.
Because having USB devices inputted with power requirements would obliterate its battery.
>>7745803
Would rather spend $500 on a decent pen.
>>7745803
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNZG4YO8ugo
What's with people pricing themselves out of the market lately?
Also just get a Netbook and install some shitty Linux distro with LibreOffice and no Internet drivers.
MAAAANNNN people are ... welp dumb
>>7745885
NOICE
>>7745803
>made to enable a goal focused framework
>HAS FUCKING WIFI
WHY?
>>7745988
This is definitely possible with a Raspberry Pi, maybe even the super cheap $5 version. I plan on doing the same thing.
>>7747868
For cloud storage.
>>7748456
Using an old Pi with a Linux install that boots right to emacs is really the way to go.
Just remember to make that root file system read only or your SD card will rot instantly.
>>7747235
Debian netinstall
For less than half the price you could get an eBay ThinkPad and just use FocusWriter (or whatever writing software you prefer, and no browser or other distractions installed if you're really that weak willed.)
>>7749964
Less than a fifth, more like.
