I got it two days ago.
Coming from a Sony PRS-T1, which did not have any light, reading on the Leaf in the evening is a pure delight with its beautiful soft yellow light.
Getting rid of the hard refresh when turning pages on the Sony is a blessing ! Reading is now a perfectly smooth experience ! Congratulations to E-ink for this recent improvement to the Carta tech !
My biggest surprise was when I tried a PDF : it was perfectly readable in landscape mode, after activating auto cropping and increasing contrast by a notch ! I wanted a small lightweight device for reading epubs, but with a screen larger than 6'', which I always found too cramped on the Sony. And I thought I would buy a 13" device in the future for PDFs. Now I realize I will not need one ! Incredible ! A tap or two are needed for reading the middle/bottom of the page, without any hard refresh of the screen : perfect ! And in normal mode ! At the highest resolution, without any ghosting whatsoever !
All that without any additional software, simply with the Boox reading software.
I also transferred books from my PC (Linux) with the included cable (USB A on the PC to USB C on the Leaf) : all I had to do was copying and pasting in a file management software. It was fast (1 second per file max), and the covers appeared immediately on the screen of the Leaf, in the library.
Conclusion : this is the perfect reader for me.
I will buy a new one when color e-ink technology has progressed enough to allow watching videos in Full HD at 30p.
P.S. : I almost bought the Poke 3 because it was 40 grams lighter and much cheaper in one online shop, but I reasoned that the Leaf being larger the additional weight would not really be felt. And indeed it feels much lighter than my phone although there is only a 10 gram difference. And I really wanted the latest Carta tech without any hard refresh when turning pages.
Last edited by Lbooker; 11-25-2021 at 02:28 PM.
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