The VIZ Manga app, on the other hand, had zooming issues that made manga unreadable. In addition, the Max Lumi 2's pen doesn't work consistently with third-party apps. As with other Onyx tablets, the software is a little quirky. Evernote was also unstable. That said, Onyx is pretty good about deploying bug fixes and has issued several updates for each of its existing tablets.
It's difficult to measure battery life on E Ink tablets, but the Max Lumi 2's 4,mAh cell suggests three to four days of use. As I noted in the original Max Lumi review, a I further compared a Note Air 2 and a Max Lumi 2 with several different kinds of documents.
For standard books, such as Kindle ebooks and textbooks, the Note Air is plenty large. Ditto for manga. With full-page PDFs, the sharpness of your eyesight matters a bit. I prefer the portability of the Note Air, but text is undeniably larger on the Max Lumi 2. The Max Lumi 2 triumphs with sheet music and with PDF brochures that include detailed maps and graphics.
A inch screen is better for side-by-side note-taking , especially for academics and lawyers. For example, you can read and directly annotate a court decision on the left half of the screen and also take freehand notes on the right half. I noticed a bit of delay when switching focus between windows, but it's manageable.
The Max Lumi 2's screen doesn't have the textured coating that the Note Air 2 does, so the pen feels a bit more slippery on the screen. You would probably only notice the difference if you compare the experience side by side, however.
An e-reader with one of the newest Kaleido Plus color E Ink screens. The software leaves much to be desired, but the screen improvements are impressive in context. The new InkPad Color could be an ideal device on paper. It features a 7. A bit heavier to hold in one hand for an extended period of time, but by no means unwieldy.
Even better, unlike all Kindles save for the Oasis, it has physical buttons. Charging the device is done through a USB-C port at the bottom. The color experience could be contributed to how the Kaleido screen works, where a thin color filter is layered over the usual electrically activated E Ink pigments to reproduce colored images. There is a store included, but it seems designed for a European audience. Titles are listed with prices in euros and while you can sort by just English language content, it seems like the library is pretty limited.
It's speedy enough, if you're using one of a handful of E Ink-optimized apps. The other parts of the Boox's ecosystem -- the menu, the responsiveness of the screen, the refresh rate -- make it feel, overall, not very zippy. Reading via the Kindle app on the Boox's dots-per-inch HD screen was a treat, especially compared with reading on a cramped Kindle or Kindle Oasis screen.
The front light has two control sliders for brightness and color temperature, because without a light source, you can't see an E Ink screen in the dark. I prefer the forward and back physical page buttons on the Oasis, but swiping through pages with my finger was fine on this larger screen.
There's also a built-in note-taking app that gave me surprisingly lag-free use of an included stylus. I was able to do all the same simple freehand sketching I normally do to test a touchscreen device with a stylus, such as the Apple Pencil or Microsoft's Surface Pen. The matte coating on the display gave writing and sketching that sense of drag on paper that so many glossy screens miss.
That was through the included Notes app -- I had less luck with third-party sketching apps. There are a lot of icons and menus and subcategories in the Boox Note Air's interface.
I enjoyed the device, once I got accustomed to tuning all the visual noise out and focusing on what it does really well.
Like me, you probably want to read books via whatever your favorite ereader app is and maybe do some sketching or note-taking with the stylus. That's about it. Everything else is noise. There's a "store" tab that basically gives you access to Project-Gutenberg-style free, public-domain ebooks. Thanks, I guess.
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