What's it like reading a book on an Onyx 13"?

[whopper]

nevermind :P

[charliebub]

Hmm, I've used the Kindle Paper-White, the Boox Note 10" and the Max 2 13" and would say the following:

The Kindle is very good indeed for all-text paperback e-books but really bad for PDF.

The Note 10.3" is very good indeed for both all-text e-books and (reading) PDF - just the perfect size for PDF READING - too small for PDF editing....

The Max 2 is too big for reading all-text e-books and definitely too large and heavy to hold 1-handed - my supporting fingers got very sore pretty quickly... For EDITING AND READING PDFs the Max 2 is superb size-wise.
That said, in 2-page (landscape) mode for e-books the Max 2 is very good and very legible.

By the above criteria I settled with the Max 2, which gives me the best all-round device. If I hadn't the need to take notes and to edit and annotate PDFs I have stuck with the Note, and if I only read e-books I have stayed with the superb Kindle Paper-White.

John B.

[mdp]

Originally Posted by charliebub

The Max 2 is too big for reading all-text e-books

Sorry, is this about formatting? If so:
-- to read reflowable text based documents (txt, epub, html etc.) I use a two-column portrait mode, like newspapers or academic articles, and I read books with more satisfaction than on smaller devices;
-- if forced to a single column, like on Word Processing software with single column reflow, I anyway quite enjoy the reading experience.
Narrower columns are optimal for speedier reading, but text editing is for contemplative reading anyway, and both modes are quite satisfactory.

So, on the contrary, "size does matter": the more the real estate, the more data your eye embraces per page, the better. It is like reading text on A4: better than on smaller paper, if formatted properly. To render text as properly formatted, there is software.