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by salamandersauce 1728 days ago
I find my Boox Note Air pretty good. It runs Android basically every app I've thrown at it works although the fact that's eInk means stuff like Netflix, games etc. is obviously not a good experience. Some apps take a little fiddling to get working well on eInk like filtering out page turn animations or page refresh settings but once that's done it works well. The stock reader is very good at PDFs and passable at ePubs but you can just download another app so it's no big deal.

Remarkable seems like it's still a little better at writing feel/writing latency but the Boox line is very good as eInk tablets.
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andrei_says_ 1728 days ago
Have you been able to use a drawing app different from the stock one? I own the nova3 and nothing else refreshes the screen properly.
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salamandersauce 1728 days ago
No that is one other caveat I forgot to mention. Apps need to use Boox's API to refresh the screen properly but as far as I am aware no 3rd party apps do. I think the API is available on their github page. I find the built in one is at least decent.
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