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Originally Posted by MikeOnyx
Also you cannot put url in the browser, that was on purpose. It is designed to appeal to content providers so it does not look like we let people easily go to a competitors' website. However if the content provider approves, then Onyx can easily put it on there.
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I think this is a mistake. Makers of E-ink devices like Amazon and Nook are distributing the devices with an end objective at selling content. They don't WANT readers accessing free content; they believe that if there were too much of it, people wouldn't pay for content, the books they make available in other words. I don't use the other devices because access to book content only is provided, and the workarounds to get web content onto the devices are too inefficient and time consuming. In other words, I want to access it directly, and I wanted access on my book reading device, displayed with E-ink. The wifi connection on the Boox makes that possible to some degree.
I will only read books on the Boox that I can import to the device. If Amazon and B&N made new ebooks readily available on the Boox, I would buy them. This mentality that the E-ink devices for books should be exclusive to book reading is ridiculous, and is one of the fundamental reasons they have not caught on with the general public.