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I have Boox with android like you described. Quality doesn't compare with kindle though. I still prefer reading on kindle.

alok-g 2y ago
I have been considering Boox Air 3C. Could you pls. explain more about the differences you see between Kindle and Boox? Thanks.
- apwell23 2y ago
  screen is not as crisp and a lot of ghosting
- jestersarmed 2y ago
  Can confirm. I own a Poke 5P and the ghosting is really more obvious until you've fiddled with the settings enough - and I do mean fiddle here. Might take a while. Other than that I'm a real fan: latest update delivered dark mode (black background, white text) and like I said above: no ads, no Amazon-DRM, all formats, cloud storage (if you want to), TTS, annotations that are really comfortable to handle, bluetooth.
- Teknomancer 2y ago
  Boox suck. Stay away. Horrible android os, low speed, battery and hardware quality issues, and dodgy Chinese practices all around.
andrewla 2y ago
I am very, very, very sad to hear this. This does match with my experience of fiddling with various Kindle competitors over the years (nook, kobo), but between generally faster processors and the increasing bloat of kindle OS, I thought maybe the gap would be narrower. Looks like I've got to build my own.
- bryanlarsen 2y ago
  I'm very happy with my Boox Palma. The Kindle app works fine on it so there's no fiddling with side loading Kindle books into a non-Kindle device.
Novosell 2y ago
If you only wanna read normal books, I agree. But I read RSS feeds, mangas and books all on my Boox tablet. Only made possible due to being able to install android apps for RSS and mangas.
- jabroni_salad 2y ago
  I'm in the same situation. I've read some workflows you can do but I really like to just pop open einkbro with my royalroad follow list as the homepage instead of having to run a browser extension to calibre rube goldberg machine every single time a new chapter is released. I don't love boox but mine hasn't died yet and it's decently competent at my use case.

alok-g 2y ago

I have been considering Boox Air 3C. Could you pls. explain more about the differences you see between Kindle and Boox? Thanks.

apwell23 2y ago
screen is not as crisp and a lot of ghosting
jestersarmed 2y ago
Can confirm. I own a Poke 5P and the ghosting is really more obvious until you've fiddled with the settings enough - and I do mean fiddle here. Might take a while. Other than that I'm a real fan: latest update delivered dark mode (black background, white text) and like I said above: no ads, no Amazon-DRM, all formats, cloud storage (if you want to), TTS, annotations that are really comfortable to handle, bluetooth.
Teknomancer 2y ago
Boox suck. Stay away. Horrible android os, low speed, battery and hardware quality issues, and dodgy Chinese practices all around.

andrewla 2y ago

I am very, very, very sad to hear this. This does match with my experience of fiddling with various Kindle competitors over the years (nook, kobo), but between generally faster processors and the increasing bloat of kindle OS, I thought maybe the gap would be narrower. Looks like I've got to build my own.

bryanlarsen 2y ago
I'm very happy with my Boox Palma. The Kindle app works fine on it so there's no fiddling with side loading Kindle books into a non-Kindle device.

Novosell 2y ago

If you only wanna read normal books, I agree. But I read RSS feeds, mangas and books all on my Boox tablet. Only made possible due to being able to install android apps for RSS and mangas.

jabroni_salad 2y ago
I'm in the same situation. I've read some workflows you can do but I really like to just pop open einkbro with my royalroad follow list as the homepage instead of having to run a browser extension to calibre rube goldberg machine every single time a new chapter is released. I don't love boox but mine hasn't died yet and it's decently competent at my use case.