After reading the review of the Onyx BOOX Poke3 by @KelsonV I had a look at the BOOX range and ordered the BOOX Page. Here it is, on the right, next to my Kobo Clara HD.
So far, it has been good. I've installed the Android versions of Libby, Pocket and, yes, Firefox and they work fine. I've adjusted the E Ink refresh rates and button settings for the apps to work correctly.
However, due to my advanced #PIM processes, I rarely write things down on #paper.
I'd love to do so much more if there would be a great #FOSS solution for offline #handwriting#OCR. That would be a great investment by the #stationery industry! 🤔
It still offers better solutions compared to my #Boox#NoteAir#eink tablet.
@publicvoit You mentioned owning a #Boox eink tablet. So do I and in my case, the OCR works very well (both on German and English). This tells me, that the technology exists. It's just a question of implementing it.
I use two notebooks, one on my desk and a pocket one on the go. Once every few days I go over my notes and add the important stuff to my TiddlyWiki. But I would really like an open source workflow that could handle all notes including digitizing and OCR.
I forgot one important #pen and so I had to re-do the photographs: my LAMY AL-star black EMR Stylus with a felt tip which I use on my #BOOX#NoteAir#eink tablet.
#Readwise's Reader just released a new version on #Android and #iOS with paged scrolling. Meaning, it's no longer just endless scrolling, but you can use the physical buttons and/or tap to scroll page by page.
This is especially useful for #eInk devices, such as my #BOOX Leaf 2! Don't forget to enable reduced animations for an even better experience!
@voxpelli My #Boox Leaf 2 isn't the fastes thing, so it takes a bit patience when using the app, but generally it works quite well indeed!
Additionally, they're still optimizing the app with partial focus on making it better on eInk devices, which is underlined by at least two employees at #Readwise actively using Boox devices themselves. So it doesn't seem like just an afterthought. #dogfooding
I investigated buying a Mira Pro from BOOX. Apparently it's impossible.
Here's a quote from their support team:
> The Mira Pro is not available for sale on the BOOX Global store. It is on sale by our resellers. After checking with our team, we are sorry that none of our resellers can deliver Mira Pro to New Zealand.
I would love to see a couple of good, open hardware ebook readers.
I know there's the open book and there's the m5 paper but they're somewhat expensive and fragile, and can only do plaintext from what I've read so far.
There's also the pinenote, I guess, but it's extra expensive, overpowered as an ebook reader, and saddled with too much software.
#BOOX uses a big number of #FOSS stuff in their #epaper tablets. I first thought it's just the #Linux#kernel which they don't release the source code. But I've realized they are using many more FOSS stuff. Like the #Android apps from #SimpleMobile which are not #copyleft but if they were, legally, BOOX had to free their source code, too. One might argue what is the difference when they don't release the source codes. The differences come up when BOOX is in a court. #GPL#free_software
I'm not tied to Android yet (#KaiOS is serving me well!) but I'm feeling the pressure for payments, cabs/bikes, and all the cool Android-based #OpenStreetMap contribution tools. The #Palma is tempting.
PSA: Running #Nextcloud on a #Boox device with background app updates drains the battery much faster. Brings the duration down from multiple days (thanks to eink!) to ~1 or 1.5 days
I'm facing an issue where Zotero's built-in PDF viewer doesn't save highlights in the PDF itself.
Consequently, while my PDFs are synchronised across my devices, my Boox e-reader doesn't recognize the highlights made on other devices. However, all other devices running Zotero can access the PDF highlights from the Boox.
Is there a way to make Zotero include the highlights and annotations directly onto the PDF?
@cyberlyra@pluralistic@Incognitim@ohthehugemanatee I hope I didn't overlook this in the replies: #Boox is a solid choice. It's android, although the versions differ by device. Still, you can read anything with the standard ebook reader that it ships with. #ebook
See boox.com, and the subreddit for Onyx_Boox is excellent, too.
I want Apple to produce a writeable version of the Boox Palma eInk reader. They would do a bang-up job of it. But, seeing the Palma is an eReader only, and given the price, I’m out.
I wanna double check, does anybody have this eReader and can confirm you can turn the screen light OFF entirely?
I am replacing my old school one that is just a basic e-ink screen. I hate illuminated screens for reading; if I buy this thing and it glows at my eyeballs I will throw it through a frickin window.
In a side chat somebody suggested checking out #boox as well. So dropping a link to similar version here, in case anybody is lurking, looking for similar to my hunt.