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Originally Posted by parkher
• the frontlight. I would actually pay more for a model without it.
Hopefully, the loss of contrast and introduced optical distortions by the frontlight layer are not very noticeable.
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Having a frontlight, even when used at the lowest setting, improves contrast tremendously. Unless you only use it in bright, direct sunlight in which case I suppose it wouldn't make a difference. But if you are able to compare an eInk screen with no frontlight and one with a frontlight on - in typical indoor lighting, you should see a significant improvement in the one with the light. (The screen background will look much whiter.)
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Originally Posted by parkher
• most importantly - it is white!!!
I cannot believe they do not offer a black version.
When the frame is white, the screen subjectively looks unpleasantly dark. That is just the law of nature.
White is absolutely unacceptable, especially for 10.3". For a tiny 5" or 6" white may be justified as an extension of margins so the eyes are not tired from the contrast of the frame next to the text. But with 10.3" there is a lot of space for really wide margins.
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My previous eReaders have always had black bezels, so I was worried about the white... but I actually really like it. Some times the bezel does look a little whiter than the screen, but it is not distracting. The even more surprising thing is that at certain times during the day, the screen will actually look whiter than the white bezel. I think that is when the ambient light is a little warmer, like in the early evening.
What you said about the white frame reducing eye fatigue is interesting. I think there may be something to that.
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Originally Posted by mrpotts
Is there a way to duplicate a note so you have two of the same?
Phil
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I too would like to be able to duplicate notes, and even just copy a page of notes and paste it into another note, or circle something I wrote and then copy and paste it into another page in the same note or a totally different note. I hope they are working on adding that type of functionality at some point.
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Originally Posted by pazos
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Ah, so that may explain the big mystery as to why my old Boyue T62+ had a choice between Adobe and FB2 as the built-in reading app, with the FB2 rendering the text perfectly.... while the built-in reading app on the new Boyue Mimas sucks!
In the older models like the Boyue T62+, did they base the FB2 app on FBReader and fail to pay a licensing fee or something? Boyue really needs to get that sorted out and go back to the reading software that they used back then.
The Mimas is a great device in many ways, but it is an
eReader and it's embarrassing that it renders text so poorly. To have so much extra space between letters and punctuation to the point of having a sentence ending period on the next page, or breaking up contractions between lines or pages, is ridiculous!
Is it possible that they don't realize how awful it is because the developers read Chinese instead of English? I hate that it's not really usable and I have to use a third party app for reading on the Mimas. If anybody is able to communicate with them about bugs and issues, could you please mention that? And hopefully they will also add the option to change the color temperature from the OS reading app menu, too.
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Originally Posted by jackstar
recently i have received my likebook mimas.
I have tried different stylus on it and i discovered that the bamboo spark, slate and the stylus of the lenovo yoga book (they are basically the same) worked.
The bamboo spark pen i have is a real pen so you can put a A5 paper sheet over the mimas screen and the note app and write on the paper and get an instant digital copy of it.
Very useful for academic usage, you can take notes and get both analog and digital copy of them.
i upload a couple of pictures to show it.
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That is so cool! Thank you for posting that.
