e-ink e-readers & other e-stuff. No i-stuff.

[erico]

The Onyx ones look pretty good!

 

[rygD]

Done.

e-ink will sell displays from their shop - but they're usually $100+ for the display and $400+ for the board to drive it.

Frankly, if you're looking at hobby work on it, you might be better off buying 2-3 of the same ereaders used from ebay and busting them open.

I might look at prices on used ones and give it a shot if they are cheap enough. Kinda seems backwards, though. I just want an e-ink PADD.

 

[pmprog]

https://liliputing.com/2018/03/onyx-boox-note-and-max-2-e-ink-slates-launch-in-europe.html

That reminds me of that Noteslate that was vapourware for a few years originally promised

 

[Failbert]

That reminds me of that Noteslate that was vapourware for a few years originally promised

My exact same thought. Noteslate was the perfect thing I'd need for notes in the computer-shunning department in my technical university (this is/was crazy), and then it proved to be a lie. And recently when it came out, it looked so dissapointingly unresponsive and slow that really, better if they kept it vapor.

Thanks everyone for the thread. Everyone's needs in e-ink displays vary a bit, but now I know a source of well-written opinions from a proper user standpoint.

 

[ible]

They already have some notebooks out and available, so it's probably not vaporware...

 

[Caine]

I decided to give it a spin and got myself the Onyx Boox Max 2 for my sheet music, reading and note taking needs. It arrived today and I am now playing around with it a bit.

The power button placement on the bottom is a bit odd, so if you actually put it on a music stand then you are likely to turn it off.
Flipping the music upside down is easily done and nicely works around the problem. Having the button on the top would have made more sense.

Pressure sensitivity does not work yet for me as the firmware update does not seem available yet.

So far, I am pretty satisfied with it as a sheet music reader. The remaining use cases still have to prove themselves over time.

 

[erico]

I´m not sure if it was said before or if this attends the OP needs, but since we mentioned noteslate...
https://remarkable.com/

edit: at lest it has the power button on top.

 

[ible]

I decided to give it a spin and got myself the Onyx Boox Max 2 for my sheet music, reading and note taking needs. It arrived today and I am now playing around with it a bit.

definitely vaporware then. i guess you could put little rubber feet on the bottom so the power button won't depress on a sheet music stand.


cool, i'm tempted now that it's on amazon in the US as well.

https://www.amazon.com/BOOX-Ereader-Android-Interface-Dual-Touch/dp/B077GVLMJN/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?ie=UTF8&qid=1522190537&sr=8-1-spons&keywords=onyx+boox+max+2&psc=1

once the pressure firmware gets sorted, i think i will get one of these. my wife might prefer it over the stacks of cardboard laying about that i use to jot down notes...

@Caine: does one of these fix your firmware issues?
http://boox.com/index.php/en/2017-10-26-08-28-2/update/10-2017-10-21-11-47-34/91-update-max-2

 

[pmprog]

I´m not sure if it was said before or if this attends the OP needs, but since we mentioned noteslate...
https://remarkable.com/

edit: at lest it has the power button on top.

Wow, that looks really neat. Not sure I understand the "power button" though, unless it just activates a lock-screen.
I've just seen the price too. A bit higher than I was hoping; and I still have my Nook which never actually got used, so tough to argue for it. Definitely something to keep my eye on though

 

[Caine]

i guess you could put little rubber feet on the bottom so the power button won't depress on a sheet music stand.

That would be possible too. It remembers the rotation (set manually, there are no tilt sensors) per PDF. So I just put all my sheet music upside down and then rotate the device itself on my piano.

@Caine: does one of these fix your firmware issues?
http://boox.com/index.php/en/2017-10-26-08-28-2/update/10-2017-10-21-11-47-34/91-update-max-2

Aha, it is released. I guess I did not search around well enough yesterday Thanks, I will give it a try later.

<edit>@ible I can confirm that pressure now works properly in the note taking application.</edit>

 

[directive0]

Just want to throw in here that if you can find a Kobo Glo you can install Android on it.

The experience is horrible, but it does "work".

 

[Caine]

I wonder if this would also be usable as a drawing tablet for use with e.g. Krita when connected to a PC.

So, the verdict: not really. I tried virtualtablet to control a windows PC over bluetooth.

• It did not support hovering, so either I had to press a button on the touchscreen to draw or it would always draw on contact (which is hard to aim). The stylus does have a button, but it doesn't really do anything. Perhaps with custom software...
• Quite a bit of input lag. It easily takes one to two seconds between drawing a line on the reader and having it fully drawn on the PC screen. Might be the software, there is also GfxTablet (and likely more) which I haven't tried.

<edit>I have been playing Vaporum lately. It works pretty decent for manually drawing maps in such dungeon crawlers (which I prefer over the automap feature). It has a +/- 25x30 grid in the default note taking application, which is a little on the small side, but workable if you split a map into two pages.
</edit>

 

[ible]

random discombobulated thoughts on a wacom tablet, remarkable, and onyx boox max 2.

so i guess, that's to say, i already got one...

 

[levi]

The trouble you had in pronouncing 'Boox' as well as it's plural as you've used it in that title there makes me realise what a stupid dumb name it is.

 

[Yori]

random discombobulated thoughts on a wacom tablet, remarkable, and onyx boox max 2.

so i guess, that's to say, i already got one...

I have a question about the remarkable.

How do you export your notes from it & what format are your notes in?
(Is it a standard usb transfer or more of proprietary app type of deal?)

 

[Hellfleck]

I have a question about the remarkable.

How do you export your notes from it & what format are your notes in?
(Is it a standard usb transfer or more of proprietary app type of deal?)

Cloud sync mostly, you need a free account with them and there are desktop / mobile apps for it too - you can save your notes as pdf or png from it and upload pdf and epub to it

But they added USB transfer support to it : https://support.remarkable.com/hc/e...Transfer-files-with-a-USB-cable-to-reMarkable

Takes getting used to though because it works as a network bridge and you then call the webserver in the remarkable in your browser to drag and drop things

The power button clears / locks the screen but also powers down the processor / sensors so the battery lasts really long if you do not use it

 

[ible]

USB transfer works for the remarkable very nicely, even on linux.

i guess i sound like an idiot saying boox the way i did, but that's what it looks like to me. also it's a peculiarity of the english language that two o's can be two different vowel sounds. (oo as in foo and oo as in book.) suffice it to say, remarkable is a better brand name than boox.

i guess i haven't tried to export my notes yet on the boox, something i should try soon...

 

[erico]

I would have loved to see the difference in response time on both.
Are they apart?

 

[ible]

drawing is very fluid on both of them, at least in the default note app, so they both feel responsive.

 

[Grench]

That Book Max 2 is huge. And awesome. And I want to see how it works as an HDMI monitor.

Seems very responsive to the pen.

Browser is on par with the "beta" one on my (smaller 7.8") Kobo Aura One SE.

Sheet music looks perfect on there. They need a metronome app that lets you set bpm, listens to you play, then times the turn page to automatically flip pages for you.

I wish you had a Pyra so that you could hook up the BOOX as an external HDMI monitor. That BOOX, a Pyra, a Vortex Nano and a Razer Naga mouse would be a killer travel setup.