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Originally Posted by Zetmolm
The Boox has its touchscreen BELOW the eInk (it's Wacom), as opposed to the PocketBook 302. It is the Pb that has its touchscreen layer on top. The Boox has less glare than the Pb.
Whether or not the glare on the Pb will bother you is something only you can decide. Some people hate it, some people don't have a problem with it. Glare on readers seems to be worse in artifical light than in sunlight. I heard from people who tried that mate screen protectors are no good at all.
All e-readers currently on the market use exactly the same eInk displays from the same supplier. So they all look the same. Although the Pb may have less contrast than the Boox because of the touchscreen layer.
I like your shortlist! These two are probably the best 6" inch readers currently available for ~300 EUR. You might want to wait for the Pb 602 which seems to come this summer, which has a mate screen, so less glare than the 302, but probably some other hardware changes as well (they mentioned a less powerful battery, for instance).
I have a Boox myself, and can recommend it. There is an active community on Booxusers.com. I don't know about the Pb community.
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Yes you are right - indeed the PB 302 has the touch-over screen.
My problem is that I can't test any of these 2 devices. And for 300 Euros they seem to deliver not as good package as I expect. After all 300 Euros can buy you a decent netbook.
Today I spent some time reading through the issues each device has and it is frightening. Onyx has quite some bad habit to send devices that cannot refresh pages under direct UV light (some monkey forgot to put the UV filter in the screen factory! dammit! Feed them more bananas!), for example. Not to mention that several firmware upgrades down the road still have bugs that should have never left the lab at first place!
PB's touch screen can have up to a centimetre from EACH edge where the stylus is not working AND the battery goes to 0 in few hundred pages instead of 10.000 pages . Helooou! Did you EVEN TRY to keep the device on standby for a week?! It takes NO EFFORT but just to leave it alone in a corner! (Dammit! Rent rooms with more corners!!!)
I really miss a company that can put some decent thought, make the effort and deliver decent product on a acceptable price AND not expect the customer to subsidize their half-hearted fault-fighting for years to come. Or sponsor their "next generation" product release.
{sigh}
P.S.
Exactly the same happened when I was looking for a media player...