Kobo Clara BW VS newest paperwhite VS smth less popular but still good. Not interested in color. Libra 2 seems very interesting but very hard to find.
Kobo Clara BW VS newest paperwhite VS smth less popular but still good. Not interested in color. Libra 2 seems very interesting but very hard to find.
I’m opposite to you - android is stop factor for me:) Much appreciated since Boox is smth new for me.
Anything bad about Android is worse on kindle or kobo’s OS. They’re more invasive, give you less privacy options, and make it much more difficult than a decent android app to organize content. I don’t actually particularly like Android, and would be miserable if I had to use it in place of my iPhone. But the device specific software is pretty much all really bad.
Kobo OS let’s me completely replace their store with a self hosted calibre-web instance for 100% DRM free ebooks.
Its fully integrated and organized exactly how I want
What’s the battery life like? Without actually doing much research, I always lent towards dedicated eReaders. I just assumed that a tailor made, super simple OS would save a lot of needless processing, therefore power.
I charge my Kindle about once a month, I guess.
By default it will turn itself off after two days, but it still sleeps pretty completely without a bunch of idle power draw without doing that.
It has a pretty long battery life with no backlight and airplane mode. If you do a bunch of downloads or run heavy apps and have the backlight high, it will drain faster, but it depends how you use it. Boox pretty aggressively limits background behavior by default, though you can change some of it to allow what you want. I don’t have benchmarks or anything to give you a direct comparison, but I rarely think about battery. You’re right to raise it as a question, though.
The one thing with color specifically is that it needs more light than black and white to really shine. In bright sunlight it looks great, but indoors I generally have to raise the backlight higher than I would for other content, and that’s a good chunk of the power draw so makes a dent.