My partner has a BOOX and loves it. I still like my Kobo, but I admit that the BOOX is pretty neat with all the other stuff it can do since it has android.
I hate articles about market success but I love my boox device… it’s sooo much better than the alternatives it’s not even close. It’s a pity their tablets are becoming more expensive.
They’re just another ebook vendor right?
A BOOX device is basically an Android tablet with an eye-friendly e-ink screen. The nice part is that you can install whatever book store you want on it, you can get the Kindle, the Kobo, Libby for library books, Moon+ Reader, or any other reading app you want. You’re not locked into one ecosystem.
The other thing is that BOOX devices are for writing and productivity, not just reading. They have stylus support and fantastic note-taking apps built in. So you can mark up a PDF, take meeting notes, or split the screen to have a book open on one side and your notes on the other.
So, while a typical ebook vendor gives you a closed device to consume their content, BOOX gives you an open, flexible tool that you can use anyway you like.
They’re not that open because they steal Linux: https://web.archive.org/web/20220109040915/http://bbs.onyx-international.com/t/install-linux-or-alternate-os-and-gpl2-kernel-source/698
seems they have kernels on github, but I haven’t looked too closely https://github.com/onyx-intl/Kernel_BOOX60
That repository is only for the Boox60, a device from 2009. They haven’t been releasing kernels for modern devices.
yeah that’s unfortunate then
