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.

I have one of their digital notebooks. It’s a pretty solid device. My only gripe is the oem case feels cheap and there isn’t much out there for aftermarket cases.

Kobo is a nice alternative to kindle as well. They have excellent devices and support all of the open formats. Works well with calibre, can sync to your local library, etc.

I have the Boox Palma I think. It's basically just a phone with an e-ink display. Since it runs android, it means that I can use it with my self hosted services like "AudioBookshelf".

The device itself is nothing special in my opinion. Maybe the screen is better than my old kindle (hard to say). Only real reason I got it was form factor and android OS so I could customize it.

Boox are great!

I don't trust the services they default to, but they're full unlocked Android, so they talk to my NAS and other services I choose.

If you don't care for the battery life or screen refresh rate, be aware that there's now a setting so you can pick your preference (faster refresh means shorter battery life).

Similarly to @dg2445@sh.itjust.works I use their digital notebook. A Boox Note Air (1st gen) and it's been really solid. They use android heavily so I'm not bound to their app store which I like.

Case selection, for my model at least, sucks

I own the Boox Tab Mini C. It's fine for reading ebooks. The screen refresh isn't really fast enough for a lot of apps , especially apps with pictures or things other than text. This causes a lot of artifacting.

You can read news papers, magazines, ebooks, and comics and it's fine for that although I think perhaps would be better without the color e-ink for most things. If it had a color setting and a grey scale setting I'd like that.

But it makes the page illegible if you scroll for too long otherwise, so stuff you would use it for like reading web pages get progressively more difficult the longer you scroll.

I think the size is good and I also think you're likely to have the same problem on a Kindle to some extent.

Additionally, it is android but it doesn't natively come with a lot of android apps you might be used to. You can remove some of the apps but it's not as easy as just going to the app store and deleting them.

It's nice to see this kind of thing in person before you buy it.

I recommend buying it from a store where you can return it if you don't like it.

I have the color note air 3 and it's great for reading ebooks, comics, and manga and also for taking notes. And because it's unlocked android I can use my choice of e-reader and sideload Mihon or other apps.

I have one and the only thing that would make me consider changing would be buying another with colour.

I can read any newspaper that has an android app, or in extreme situation, run any browser I want.

Adding to this, how are they at keeping Android updated, especially on older devices?