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Lparsons21 · 12-24-2019, 09:02 PM

I just got this today in my seemingly never ending quest for a really good e-ink Android tablet. Came with Android 6 but their ad shows upgrading to Android 9 soon.

But regardless of that update, the home screen isn’t anything to get excited about. It works OK and got better when I fiddled with it a lot. It came with a little brochure that is the start guide, but the size and fonts make it less than useful.

Installed my 3 ebook apps, Kindle, Nook and Scribd on it. Oddly the Nook app doesn’t appear on the home screen at all, so I just ran it from the Play Store and never close the app. Anyone have a clue about how to get the Nook app icon on the App screen?

The little floating quick action button is slick as can be once I actually found out about it. But one oddity with the Nova is that when you pop up the multi-task screen it sometimes shows the top menu of the main screen and other times doesn’t. The only way it shows that in the multi-task screen is if I’m coming from the Nook app. If I’m reading in either Kindle or Scribd it and pop that screen up the top main stuff isn’t visible, nor does there seem to be a way to have that portion of the screen show while in the Kindle or Scribd apps, only in the Nook app. I really would like that to show up better or have some way to get back to the main screen easier.

The screen is wonderful! And the ability to mix white and yellow lights to get what I find more pleasing is great. Readability is excellent though the Scribd’s fonts are a little lighter than in Kindle or Nook.

Currently I have this Nova Pro, a 2017 Oasis and Nook Glowlight Plus, all within a return window. The plan is to fiddle with all 3 over the next few days to determine which I’ll keep. The big pluses for the Nova Pro is it will run all my ereader apps with an excellent screen and while not quite as fast as the Nook and Oasis, is plenty fast enough.

The downside is mostly that it is more expensive and doesn’t run the apps quite as smoothly as do the dedicated readers.

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12-24-2019, 09:02 PM	#1
Lparsons21 Zealot Posts: 139 Karma: 4321046 Join Date: Nov 2018 Device: iPad mini 4	Boox Nova Pro - initial thoughts and some questions I just got this today in my seemingly never ending quest for a really good e-ink Android tablet. Came with Android 6 but their ad shows upgrading to Android 9 soon. But regardless of that update, the home screen isn’t anything to get excited about. It works OK and got better when I fiddled with it a lot. It came with a little brochure that is the start guide, but the size and fonts make it less than useful. Installed my 3 ebook apps, Kindle, Nook and Scribd on it. Oddly the Nook app doesn’t appear on the home screen at all, so I just ran it from the Play Store and never close the app. Anyone have a clue about how to get the Nook app icon on the App screen? The little floating quick action button is slick as can be once I actually found out about it. But one oddity with the Nova is that when you pop up the multi-task screen it sometimes shows the top menu of the main screen and other times doesn’t. The only way it shows that in the multi-task screen is if I’m coming from the Nook app. If I’m reading in either Kindle or Scribd it and pop that screen up the top main stuff isn’t visible, nor does there seem to be a way to have that portion of the screen show while in the Kindle or Scribd apps, only in the Nook app. I really would like that to show up better or have some way to get back to the main screen easier. The screen is wonderful! And the ability to mix white and yellow lights to get what I find more pleasing is great. Readability is excellent though the Scribd’s fonts are a little lighter than in Kindle or Nook. Currently I have this Nova Pro, a 2017 Oasis and Nook Glowlight Plus, all within a return window. The plan is to fiddle with all 3 over the next few days to determine which I’ll keep. The big pluses for the Nova Pro is it will run all my ereader apps with an excellent screen and while not quite as fast as the Nook and Oasis, is plenty fast enough. The downside is mostly that it is more expensive and doesn’t run the apps quite as smoothly as do the dedicated readers. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro