Onyx really seems to have ticked all the boxes with the available technology. Not only is the colour contrast and saturation looking better (it still has some way to go in future) but there seems to be a lot of attention paid to the OneNote app as well as the drawing app. For functionally, too, it does what is needed for PDF annotations using a WACOM stylus. The text for actual reading looks pretty sharp for a colour eInk too as it is 300 DPI in black and white mode. Being Android based, it even has the Kindle app (with ecosystem) available to use. So as far as this size goes, Kindle is really going to have to make some dramatic changes, as it is now eating dust.

But the screen size is not ideal for typical A4 business documents or educational textbooks, so on that front if this was scaled up to a 10" that would be perfect (at a cost of course). Sadly, the 10" size eInk readers are usually quite a bit more expensive. Yes, one could use an Android or Apple tablet, but that comes with extra weight, short battery life, and are not great in the bright sunlight.

Watch the video at https://youtu.be/dB4shircB_s

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Yep it's not cheap at all, but colour does fill a useful niche for magazines, textbooks and comics. This is Onyx's third commercial colour eInk device, and this is important as newer iterations are going to keep showing improvements of the screen, especially for contrast and clarity.

In fact, Onyx claims the screen on the new Nova Air C has 30% better contrast and 15% more colour saturation compared to the screen on the previous generation Nova3 Colour (but they also note the contrast difference with the front lights off is only 6%).

The device runs Onyx’s customized software that’s based on Android 11, and like other Boox products it’s open to install Android apps. It also comes with a stylus pen for taking notes and writing on the screen.

See https://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2022/03/23/new-onyx-nova-air-c-released-with-color-e-ink-screen/

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There’s now different ways to view collections on Kindles, and it can be rather confusing initially. With two separate menus to filter content, the new UI isn’t very intuitive, and there’s no explanation about how things are supposed to work now, so I can see why some people are having problems with it.

There’s now different ways to view collections on Kindles, and it can be rather confusing initially. With two separate menus to filter content, the new UI isn’t very intuitive, and there’s no explanation about how things are supposed to work now, so I can see why some people are having problems with it.

There are two different ways to sort collections, and the filtering option for collections doesn’t appear with the default option selected in settings (brilliant). If you want to view your collections in list view, try using a different viewing option in settings. One will show all your collections and all the books added to those collections in one long list, or you can select to just show collections that you’ve marked as favourites in the main list.

See https://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2022/03/22/how-collections-work-after-latest-kindle-update/

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