[leaston]

I sacked the idea of the colour Kindle partly because I don't relish being locked in.

So, I bought the Boox Go Color 7 and it arrived yesterday. The cost was similar to the Kindle, but with a slip case included.

The colour on the screen is, ok and about right for my fairly low expectations. The gui has some quirks and irritations, but I'm sold on Android for an ereader and the flexibility it gives me over the Kobo or Kindle.

I love the virtually instant page turn speed on this device. The ghosting can be a bit intrusive if you don't tweak the settings to reduce it.

The BooxDrop app is fantastic and enables drag and drop (wirelessly) onto the device from my PC browser with no fuss. I've added epubs, pdf, cbz and they all just opened in the default Boox reading app with no need for Calibre or conversion.

Is it perfect? Far from it. There's some colour bleed on the right of the screen, the menus are all over the place and often hard to find, poorly explained and occasionally ineffective. However, I'll take the ridiculous amount of config available over what I have on the Kobo or Kindle right now.

This is my ereader until a 10" colour device (with a light) appears, to scratch the comic itch.