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[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago

Used an Onyx Boox or whatever for eight or nine months last (?) year. Liked it a lot. And REALLY wish Kobo would "steal" the idea of just letting me sync notes straight to a webdav rather than having to shenanigans. Of course... the Booxes ALSO have mysterious traffic to and from Chinese servers which puts a damper on using it for anything meaningful.

But I think my biggest issue was kind of... the thing that made the Onyx so good. I loved that it was a (really jank) android device for the purposes of accessing kindle and whatever else. But that meant it was also incredibly unstable and it increasingly made it clear that android app design philosophy is designed for fast updating displays, not e-ink.

And while I think I could have found a third party e-reader app... the built in one is REAL shit and clearly designed with having a few PDFs in memory rather than actually being a "library on the go".

So I ended up getting a Kobo and am super happy. I still occasionally grab my onyx if I am playing an older game and want to put a prima guide or whatever on the side but... yeah.

Also apparently the onyx was incredibly fragile? I never noticed a problem but saw LOTS of carnage pictures of people who put it in a too tightly packed bag.