EWritable – e-ink tablet news and reviews

I've had a Kindle Scribe for just over a year, and my micro review is: "It's like paper, only much more expensive."

The writing experience is good. I use it for largely bullet journaling of things I need to do. It works well, but honestly a paper notebook would work nearly as well. I had hoped to get nebulous other benefits, I'm not exactly sure what, but maybe exporting or templates or viewing from multiple locations. But the software is fairly slow and fairly minimalistic.

Honestly: It's an e-reader with minimal pen functionality. What it has over a notebook is: It lays flat, and it's easy to erase. I do use it every business day.

Downsides: Page flipping is maddeningly slow, and the pencil is $50 if I lose it, and $1 nearly every time I drop it (replacing the nib). I've had a number of close calls where I thought I lost it and didn't look forward to the cost of replacement.

I'm amazingly close to selling it on ebay and replacing it with either a notebook and pen, a Boox Note Air 3 (non-color). I hear ReMarkable is coming out with a new one soon too.

If anyone running a site like this finds this thread, I’d like to suggest that always declaring the PPI is important. At least to me.

I straight up am not ever going to buy anything with less than 300 PPI, because that’s the point where I stop noticing the pixels. So being able to filter out everything that fails that saves a lot of time.

Ewritable is definitely my go-to resource for comparing eInk tablets (I'm a big fan of the space). Hopefully it survives the hug of death soon so more folks can discover his hard work.

I also came across https://comparisontabl.es/e-readers/ lately, which has a lot of niche and older devices, but doesn't have the same depth of coverage for the bigger incumbants.

I'm hoping there's a good (and not super expensive) smartphone (without cellular) color e ink device in the future.

I know a lot of people want the boox palma to have cellular but... I would prefer for it to be cheaper and retain just wifi. I have one, and I've never felt like I need mobile internet on it and I've also never felt like I would want to replace my phone for it either.

The boox air 3 c is currently at the top of my list of useless gadgets I want to play with for a week before placing on the retirement shelf.

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My ideal portable machine would be an ARM laptop, Thinkpad x220 build and an e-ink screen running Linux. With the right power management, it could last days on battery.

Every now and again, I see stories about Onyx and their tablets pop up and I have to dust off this old comment of mine [0]. I've since sold the tablet and picked up a remarkable that I am very happy with and have modified in many ways.

Long story short: - Onyx still doesn't release kernel sources

- Onyx still uses outdated and vulnerable builds of Android, with questionable settings such as disabling SELinux

- Their devices are very chatty back to servers in the PRC.

- Their digitizer API is still hostile to developers.

- They shut down their support forums when the chorus of disgruntled customers began to get too loud

And even worse, they are using "anti-China movement" as an excuse to not comply with the GPL. This company is shit and no one should give them any money. And yet, all of these "review sites" (full of every kind of affiliate link imaginable) can't help themselves from riding the gravy train of free product from this company.

Edit: And then there are large threads like this [2] where people recognize all the problems and try to "secure" their devices. （ ´_ゝ`）

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21041543

[1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/Onyx_Boox/comments/hsn7kx/onyx_usin...

[2]: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?s=64718a04c...

When the site finally worked it was nice to learn of the super note. Never heard of it before and I’m curious when the next iteration of their 10” version comes out. Seems like a good note taking first and e reader second. Which is what I’m looking for, already enjoy my smaller kobo for reading only.

Long shot, but does anyone know the ODM/OEMs that produce these? I’ve had an idea for a niche device and I bet there’s a few firms that specialize in the hardware.

I really liked my remarkable 2 for the feel of writing. Honestly what stopped me from using it is the lack of backlight (since most of my use is reading ebooks)

boox air 3 (non-c) is my favorite reader ever, i can run android apps like lichess, hive, logseq, hacki, termux, chatgpt. write on it with a stylus, take notes and read books in a large format. it has a nice interface, unfortunately no buttons, is thin, has good battery life and bluetooth and wifi support so i can use it with a foldable keyboard and it doubles as a grayscale xfce machine.

Not the most mobile-friendly site

Seems like this website is hosted on a 1ghz e-reader.