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Originally Posted by leaston
Ahh, sorry for the confusion on this point. I was mostly replying to DrPrince's post suggesting a Kindle for the job. I agree with you that the 9.7" screen is fine for most docs.
Speed. I'm comparing three things: the speed with which I can flick through a real book, my experience with my own ereaders (Kindle and Kobo Glo) and my experience with my own Android tablets (ASUS TF101 and Nexus 7).
There's never going to be anything as convenient or quick as flicking through the pages of a book, but in terms of speed of navigation, Android tablets outperform ereaders by an order of magnitude. For me, there's no comparison.
To be fair, I haven't even seen the Onyx other than on YouTube vids.
This is where Internet purchases fail for me. Before I'd consider buying one of these, I'd want to try it with a textbook.
They do look good on paper. But, it's too expensive a purchase to make without something a bit more concrete than mixed reviews. I know a dual or quad core Android tablet will perform well with pretty much any pdf I can throw at it. This isn't the case with eink readers yet because of the hardware spec and I simply can't afford to take such a gamble with new tech when there's something already out there far cheaper that's proven.
I take your point that for some people reading from an LCD or similar screen is hard on the eyes. In the case of textbooks, I rarely spend more than an hour at at time reading them, so it's not that much of a problem for me.
I still haven't seen an eink reader that compares to Android in speed of rendering, navigation and screen refresh rate. I could perhaps live with the refresh rate if the rest of the spec was higher.
I'll keep watching the new readers in the hope that someone makes something fast and reliable enough  |
Thanks again for your reply. I certainly agree with most of what you say, and yes indeed it would be much better if one could try out the device. Online return policies are not quite pain free.
That said the onyx boox does tempt me, I would still call it expensive. I like what I hear abut it except stories of bricking and permanent freezes on the device. What I find reassuring is that the entire software stack is open.