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The Full Story of BOOX: How a Chinese Startup Revolutionized the Global E-Reader Market (pandayoo.com)
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[–] 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Absolutely love my BOOX Palma. It's a Kindle but if the Kindle was the size of a small smartphone and full Android but still eink. It's basically perfect. I can browse Hexbear, read my newspapers, books, whatever, all super easily on a great eink screen and it's tiny. No complaints, and it's like $200.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago*

    BOOX Palma

    Android

    Ouch, wish that wasn't the case. I'd prefer e-readers with close-to-mainline-Linux and Libre stacks, for future maintainability. Android stock is fine, but good mainline support almost always means better long-term Android support too.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    I just checked a video review, didn't realize refresh rates had gotten that fast. Scrolling used to be a nightmare.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago

    They even have different e-ink refresh rate modes. If you're just reading a book, it auto adjusts to very low refresh rates with high quality, because you're just turning pages. With web browsing, you can adjust to be faster at a loss of quality; hell, it's fast enough that you can even watch videos with eink if that's what you want.

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