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Maybe a good time to ask the crowd: Is there any tablet sized, lightweight ereader for reading textbooks? Ideally without crazy vendor lock in? Deciding between
by outlore 1y ago
Maybe a good time to ask the crowd: Is there any tablet sized, lightweight ereader for reading textbooks? Ideally without crazy vendor lock in? Deciding between the Boox (but there are a dizzying number of options) or Kindle Scribe. Or maybe I should just use an iPad?
- gunalx 1y agoI really liked my boox. Its basically just a android tablet with eink and good pen support and decent builtin apps. Its phoning home to china tough, but thar can be bøocked.
- stonecharioteer 1y agoI use a Boox Tab Mini C. If you're in the Android ecosystem, it's amazing. KOReader is the best app you can use once you learn how to set it up (it takes a minute). I have both the Palma and the Tab Mini C. I use the Palma for reading lighter books and the Tab Mini C for textbooks. I also have a larger Android tablet for more colorful books though. I'd recommend getting the largest Boox tablet you can comfortably afford/hold. And one with their older stylus. The new ones are moving away from Wacom I think.
- bramhaag 1y agoI have a Boox Go 10.3 and the hardware is fine. What is not fine is that they actively violate the GPL [1], use outdated and vulnerable Android and kernel versions, and send loads of telemetry to some Chinese servers [2]. If you do end up going this route, consider not giving it internet access or securing it in other ways. You may also want to consult this guide: https://gist.github.com/fardjad/97baf36de97d1c4ae3953b3d359bb918 https://gist.github.com/fardjad/97baf36de97d1c4ae3953b3d359b... [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Onyx_Boox/comments/hsn7kx/onyx_using_recent_antichina_movement_as_excuse_to/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Onyx_Boox/comments/hsn7kx/onyx_usin... [2] https://github.com/JordanEJ/Onyx-Boox-Blocklist https://github.com/JordanEJ/Onyx-Boox-Blocklist