<story><title>My Life in E-Ink</title><url>https://rgoswami.me/posts/my-life-in-eink/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>karthink</author><text>I own the BOOX Note 2, it&amp;#x27;s an android tablet with some E-Ink friendly modifications. It&amp;#x27;s the best electronic reading experience I&amp;#x27;ve ever had:&lt;p&gt;- It&amp;#x27;s 10.3&amp;quot;, perfect for reading PDFs like scientific papers without being too large to carry around.&lt;p&gt;- The included reader is stellar, with special modes for reading PDFs, comicbooks, etc.&lt;p&gt;- The included note-taking app is pretty good and fully featured. It integrates with the reader and there&amp;#x27;s a side-by-side mode.&lt;p&gt;- It supports every open format I&amp;#x27;ve tried: PDFs, DJVU, epub, mobi and more. (Haven&amp;#x27;t tried PS.)&lt;p&gt;- I can scribble on all document types, including ebooks.&lt;p&gt;- I can install apps from the app store. In particular this means I can read my Kindle library and Wallabag feed, and...&lt;p&gt;- with Syncthing syncing is set and forget. When I download a PDF or book on my computer, I simply pick up the tablet and start reading it. Any notes I make are synced back to my laptop.&lt;p&gt;- Of course, the above is in addition to the standard E-Ink features you&amp;#x27;d expect: It lasts for weeks on a charge, the reading experience in bright sunlight is fantastic, it&amp;#x27;s lighter than an iPad, zero eye strain, etc.&lt;p&gt;I installed only the software I need for reading and syncing, but there&amp;#x27;s a lot more you could do with it since the play store and F-droid are available. You can use it as an external monitor, for instance.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bbarnett</author><text>I bought, and returned the Note Air.&lt;p&gt;The build quality is impressive. I had it for 2 weeks, used it for about an hour daily, and set it to only poweroff after a day of inactivity.&lt;p&gt;Its battery dropped from 100% to 48% over that time.  Yes, I was quite positively impressed.&lt;p&gt;However, their theft of code (which is what you do, if you do not respect the code license, eg, gpl), the fact that even a brand new model tablet was 3+ monthly Android security updates behind, and the pcaps I took showing all the phoning home, including IPs in China...&lt;p&gt;Well...&lt;p&gt;As I said, returned.  Quite sad, loved the hardware.</text></comment>
<story><title>My Life in E-Ink</title><url>https://rgoswami.me/posts/my-life-in-eink/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>karthink</author><text>I own the BOOX Note 2, it&amp;#x27;s an android tablet with some E-Ink friendly modifications. It&amp;#x27;s the best electronic reading experience I&amp;#x27;ve ever had:&lt;p&gt;- It&amp;#x27;s 10.3&amp;quot;, perfect for reading PDFs like scientific papers without being too large to carry around.&lt;p&gt;- The included reader is stellar, with special modes for reading PDFs, comicbooks, etc.&lt;p&gt;- The included note-taking app is pretty good and fully featured. It integrates with the reader and there&amp;#x27;s a side-by-side mode.&lt;p&gt;- It supports every open format I&amp;#x27;ve tried: PDFs, DJVU, epub, mobi and more. (Haven&amp;#x27;t tried PS.)&lt;p&gt;- I can scribble on all document types, including ebooks.&lt;p&gt;- I can install apps from the app store. In particular this means I can read my Kindle library and Wallabag feed, and...&lt;p&gt;- with Syncthing syncing is set and forget. When I download a PDF or book on my computer, I simply pick up the tablet and start reading it. Any notes I make are synced back to my laptop.&lt;p&gt;- Of course, the above is in addition to the standard E-Ink features you&amp;#x27;d expect: It lasts for weeks on a charge, the reading experience in bright sunlight is fantastic, it&amp;#x27;s lighter than an iPad, zero eye strain, etc.&lt;p&gt;I installed only the software I need for reading and syncing, but there&amp;#x27;s a lot more you could do with it since the play store and F-droid are available. You can use it as an external monitor, for instance.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jdshaffer</author><text>Thanks for sharing this. I&amp;#x27;ve been pondering getting a Boox Nova 3 in the near future (mostly because it has the yellow backlight and ends up being only $5 more than a Kindle Oasis (where I live)... and then I get the benefit of all the additional features. :-)</text></comment>