Quote:
Originally Posted by hobnail
Comparing a tablet to an e-ink ereader to me is comparing apples and oranges. I would expect a tablet to be clearly superior, which is why I restricted my question to ereaders; I'm curious about how the kobo compares to other ereaders with a pen.
|
Boox devices have about 40ms latency I think? It's very comparable to old PC Wacom EMR tablets like the Surface Pro 1 which makes sense since its the same tech. You get pressure sensitivity but no tilt.
The Boox devices have more note taking features, there is for example layers, you can set a PDF file to use a template instead of just lined paper, or grid or whatever. You can add shapes, select things to copy and paste or resize or move something, it's possible to insert text boxes and add text with either a touch or a bluetooth or USB keyboard. You can reorganize pages, insert images from the clip board, resize them, etc. It does have handwriting to text but I find it doesn't work all the time with my handwriting so I don't bother. You can also search handwriting. It only exports to PDF and you can automatically sync to dropbox. Overall it's pretty well featured.
Unfortunately because it's eInk you can't just use any old Android app that supports pen as it has to use Boox's API, otherwise there is tremendous lag using the pen.