Thread: Where can I buy an InkPad 3?
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Old 02-05-2019, 04:20 PM   #23
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Originally Posted by janviet View Post
Today, I received my 'tea' InkPad 3 from Decitre. It was properly packaged and appeared to be a brand new device (model number PB740 with production date October 15, 2018). Coming from a Nook Simple Touch, the display and frontlight on the InkPad 3 look amazing.

I didn't even try setting it up with the original 'tea' firmware. Instead, I immediately updated to the latest Pocketbook firmware (5.19.660). I didn't have much time today, but so far everything works fine. I'll do some more testing later this week.
Glad to hear the Pocketbook firmware update worked! It's nice to know it's an option if Tea doesn't get their own update out soon.

I agree about the quality of the screen -- it's really a huge step up for me too (was previously using a 4th generation Kindle from 2012). I'm glad I went for the bigger screen instead of the HD 3 I was initially considering. The Inkpad is 210g compared to 160g for the old Kindle, but still feels really light in the hands.

BTW, one of the reasons why I went for the bigger screen is that I thought it would allow reading scanned PDF books, and I tried it out on one from the Internet Archive over the weekend. The PDF viewer lets you crop out the page margins and I think it ended up scaling the text to 93% or something like that, so it's not awful to read.
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