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I've got the 7in boox with the color screen and it's awesome. Mostly, I'm posting to see if this community will go anywhere.

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[-] grillgamesh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I've been looking at the 10inch boox color....... but the ~600USD price tag and the supposed lack of durability worry me.

I currently use a OUKITEL RT7 TITAN 5G android tablet as my ereader, the ~1kg weight is a lot..... but the battery life is stupendous, at ~280 hours between charges; with daily ~5 hour reading sessions

~(this is due to local electricity company ordnances saying not to use power for a period of the day lest you get charged roughly 80¢ per KWhr, as opposed to the usual rate of roughly 02¢ per KWhr. yes its stupid, no I can't move, and yes I'm semi-glad to have an excuse to read a lot :D)~

[-] ZapBeebz_@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

I've got the Kobo Clara Colour and it's fantastic. Great battery life, convenient form factor, color e-ink display, and super easy to use with Calibre to load/manage my eBook collection.

[-] quantumlover@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

$600 is an outrageous price for an ebook reader for sure. I just read fiction novels on mine. No need for color, so I just stick to regular grayscale e-ink displays. I don't think I have any ebook readers that are worth more than $200. Most of mine were bought in the $50 to $80 range. My main go-to's are a Pocketbook w KOreader installed, and a Gen3 Kindle.

Tho I have a little refurbished Nook Glowlight that I love to use when I take trips that involve flying.

[-] grillgamesh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 hours ago

for sure. it -is- apparently a full fledged android tablet though, so its not so much an "ereader" as it is a "android tablet with a niche screen technology"..... its being budgeted for; hopefully the durability lives up to the price tag; I'd hate for it to break.

[-] Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip 2 points 2 hours ago

I'm considering a color one for reading my webcomics and whatnot, but I'm not really sure if things are actually in a place where that would be a good user experience, reading from an indie website or webtoon/tapas

[-] quantumlover@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I was just looking at the Boox Palma 2, but it's a little outside my price range. How long have you had it? Which version do you have?

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