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Originally Posted by Michal Jancik
- Well, in my case, the BOOX Page starts within 2 seconds.
But I have no reason to turn it off, I just put it to sleep. I have it set to turn off after 24 hours.
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The thing I have noticed, is the Boox still consumes a decent amount of power when asleep so if I don't turn it off, the battery drains a lot faster.
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Originally Posted by Michal Jancik
- BOOX It can also be used without logging in
- BOOX is more flexible
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Quite true. Also, the included neoreader is impressively good. Better than any of the other built-in readers I have tried.
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Originally Posted by Michal Jancik
So I can't see anything great on the Lite version, which has a screen with a low resolution (at least for me).
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Yes, the Lite is not the right device for me either. Mainly because of it's size and ergonomics though. The resolution isn't a big problem for me because of the way I use the larger device. I hold it slightly further away from me and make everything larger. On the other hand, if you were to use it to get more on the page by leaving the font small-ish, the resolution limitations become obvious pretty quick.
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Originally Posted by Michal Jancik
Apropos the mentioned BOOX Page has better contrast and sharpness compared to ERA. Personally, I would never go back to ERA from BOOX Page (I had both models for a while ).
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I don't have the Era yet so I can't comment on that one.
There are things I like about the Page. In addition to what is mentioned above, the build quality seems good, the buttons are well placed and work consistently and the device is very open.
There are a couple of deal-breakers for me with the Page though. The first is the power issues mentioned above. Unless you sleep the device, it takes too long to get back in-book.
The other is library management. The ability to browse a large library on the device is not good. The interface is too limited. I tried working around this but couldn't find a good solution for my needs.
I tried using 3rd party readers. There were some that had decent library management but they all had some flaws in the reading experience. The two I liked the best were Moonreader+ and Librera. However, both had flaws that were annoying.
About the best work-around I came up with was to put the books on the device organized by series in the folder structure and then switch to the file browser mode of the library when I wanted to view it that way. There were still many annoyances though.
I really wish the Boox Library would be improved. If you have thousands of books acquired over many years, it just doesn't handle that well.