Onyx Boox Nova e-reader

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I do not think that the century of paper books has passed. Still, it’s so nice: sit in the chair in the evening, pour a cup of coffee, open a book. Rustle pages. Breathe in the smell of ink. But in some moments of life, the e-reader is more convenient and more pleasant. The ordinary tablets have bad influence on one’s eyes, however the e-readers are manufactured on that way to minimize the caused damage. In this article we are going to share our experience with one of the most interesting e-readers: Onyx Boox Nova.

The real solution is e-readers. I started to touch this technology from the earliest “Leibang” e-reader. It took almost 2 seconds to refresh a page, but this really paper-like display is awesome. Later I played Kindle’s PaperWhite, Voyage, etc. Maybe they can only do one thing, that is reading, but often it is not enough to do one thing well. During my examination, I can not read a breath on the phone for more than 20 minutes, a little longer than this time the eyes will begin to feel uncomfortable. In this situation e-readers can help you. However, they have a flaw too. For instance, the Kindle and other closed-system e-readers can only read books, but not anything else. You can’t even install a good dictionary. This makes me unacceptable as a student. Then I purchase Onyx Boox Nova.

The appearance of Onyx Boox Nova

Like the larger 13.3-inch Max2 and 10.3-inch Note, the Nova has a 1.6GHz quad-core processor with 2GB of RAM and 32GB of storage space. It has Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and a USB-C port. The screen PPI has also reached 227 and later 300. The refresh rate is not comparable to the earlier e-reader products. So the income note, this is a 10.3-inch PPI 227 device. The first time when I saw it, its relatively narrow border attracted me immediately. Before the Onyx Boox Nova, e-readers can be described as ugly devices, including Amazon’s series. As a 10.3-inch e-reader, the advantages and disadvantages of the product are very obvious.

The advantage is of course the invincibility of reading. I read the English version of “Deer Ding Ji” on the horizontal screen of the e-reader. This is a PDF book that was completely unreadable on the previous 6-inch machine. I have tried most of the PDF books on hand, and the Onyx Boox Nova can do the job. The horizontal screen can be enlarged, and the powerful PDF reading function of Onyx Boox Nova can facilitate the reading process, thus making Onyx Boox Nova a good choice for home reading.

One of the drawbacks of the gadget is it’s size. It becomes very inconvenient to carry 10.3 inches plus the delicate and very expensive electronic ink screen from home to office. For me, the better Onyx Boox Nova is with the 7.8-inch screen. Besides the size, it does not yield with it’s specifications: not half of the screen, the same processor, system and memory specifications configuration, and the first aragonite 2.0 system. After all, the 6-inch product has a limited screen area, and the reading is still very strong. The 7.8-inch overall is a very good balance.

In In fact, the first use feeling of receiving the product is similar to what I expected. Another advantage of Boox Nova is that it supports two-color backlighting. The backlight of the electronic ink and the main body of the mobile phone screen are still different, and the stimulation to the eyes is much smaller. However, I would rather have a light in the room than use the backlight of the device. To put it simply, I think Nova’s backlight and Amazon Voyage are not inferior, let alone it also supports warm and cold light. The actual reading effect, the edge of the font is 300PPI, the large file opening speed is fast, the local reader supports more formats, and the text paragraph arrangement function is very powerful (this is very important). It can be said that the biggest contribution of the browser is actually the flip virtual key that supports e-ink. Because of the characteristics of electronic ink, the feel of the key for turning pages is much more humanized than the traditional stroke. Most of the apps, can be done directly with the browser, almost no need to install the app. Aragonite System 2.0 is used in the system-level built-in refrigerator, which can be used for freezing the unused apps. To prevent theft and power consumption.

The system does not have many built-in fonts. Users can create a fonts folder in the root directory, and then put their favorite font files into it. I used to use the e-ink mainly for local reading. The pleasure of reading is unmatched by watching movies. Jin Yong can conquer the Chinese world with only his 15 martial arts novels. In addition to reading, I also have a very important motivation to use MDict on E-Ink. The mobile phone is suitable for quick query reading, but some of the terms are very thin and long, and it is only reasonable to read the text on the electronic ink screen. Because Onyx Nova uses Android 6.01, the memory also has 2GB (now there is no more than 2GB of electronic ink in the market except Hisense and Yota; but Hisense and Yota are mobile phones), it is no problem to deal with a MDict. But the Nova advantage doesn’t stop there.

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