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AmCom · 02-01-2018, 08:50 AM

Hi folks,

I read through the whole of the original thread on the two new Onyx devices and am currently torn between them. I opened a new thread in this forum (instead of the "which ereader to buy" forum) because there are some users of the Max 2 active here as well as some experienced users of older Onyx devices from the same market segment. I didn't just reply to the original thread for visibility reasons. If this is a problem, please refile my thread accordingly.

I wanted to get an ereader of this type for research in the humanities and social sciences since about 2 years but didn't find a device I liked yet (you can't really get the Sony reader in Europe). I'm very excited about these new Onyx devices because (a) they have decent hardware, so working with pdfs, especially scans will be fast(er) and (b) they feature Android 6.0 and (c) they offer more of a complete experience for reading and annotating in general (my guess is the market segment is small, so iteration is slow and prieces are high -- but I feel were finally getting somewhere).

Now, what I'm looking to do is getting a device to read, as mentioned, papers, text books and OCRed scans of book chapters in mainly humanities and social sciences (some computer science). I have my literature set up in a Google Drive folder, so I'm looking to set up Google Backup & Sync (their Drive tool) and put the Lit folder on my Onyx (as well as a Bibtex based Reference Manager). I want to read and annotate my literature in this folder and then work through annotations in a subsequent step to file relevant information into a note taking system (which currently lives in a git, consisting of text files with academic markdown). My reading volume per day is somewhere between 4 and 10 hours (okay thats a bit high of a range, I'd say 6-7 hours on most days).

The Max 2 seems like a nice device but I feel (a) 800€ is a bit steep (550€ seems subjectively much more palatable to me) and (b) it's a bit heavy. ((c) I like the HDMI pro though, without knowing how much I'm gonna use it and (d) I'm a bit worried considering the reports on battery life). The Note has a more attractive price but I wonder how much the smaller screen will impact my work with PDFs.

Thus, main questions are: (a) How much do you think the screen size difference matters and (b) how much do you think the weight difference matters. More generally (c) do you think those are appropriate devices for the use case I described.

I'm thankful for any input, comments and experiences.

(Also sorry for the wall of text

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02-01-2018, 08:50 AM	#1
AmCom Junior Member Posts: 7 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2018 Device: none	Boox Max 2 vs Note (use case decision) Hi folks, I read through the whole of the original thread on the two new Onyx devices and am currently torn between them. I opened a new thread in this forum (instead of the "which ereader to buy" forum) because there are some users of the Max 2 active here as well as some experienced users of older Onyx devices from the same market segment. I didn't just reply to the original thread for visibility reasons. If this is a problem, please refile my thread accordingly. I wanted to get an ereader of this type for research in the humanities and social sciences since about 2 years but didn't find a device I liked yet (you can't really get the Sony reader in Europe). I'm very excited about these new Onyx devices because (a) they have decent hardware, so working with pdfs, especially scans will be fast(er) and (b) they feature Android 6.0 and (c) they offer more of a complete experience for reading and annotating in general (my guess is the market segment is small, so iteration is slow and prieces are high -- but I feel were finally getting somewhere). Now, what I'm looking to do is getting a device to read, as mentioned, papers, text books and OCRed scans of book chapters in mainly humanities and social sciences (some computer science). I have my literature set up in a Google Drive folder, so I'm looking to set up Google Backup & Sync (their Drive tool) and put the Lit folder on my Onyx (as well as a Bibtex based Reference Manager). I want to read and annotate my literature in this folder and then work through annotations in a subsequent step to file relevant information into a note taking system (which currently lives in a git, consisting of text files with academic markdown). My reading volume per day is somewhere between 4 and 10 hours (okay thats a bit high of a range, I'd say 6-7 hours on most days). The Max 2 seems like a nice device but I feel (a) 800€ is a bit steep (550€ seems subjectively much more palatable to me) and (b) it's a bit heavy. ((c) I like the HDMI pro though, without knowing how much I'm gonna use it and (d) I'm a bit worried considering the reports on battery life). The Note has a more attractive price but I wonder how much the smaller screen will impact my work with PDFs. Thus, main questions are: (a) How much do you think the screen size difference matters and (b) how much do you think the weight difference matters. More generally (c) do you think those are appropriate devices for the use case I described. I'm thankful for any input, comments and experiences. (Also sorry for the wall of text )