@mayintoronto I made the switch to full digital years ago as I got tired of storing used notebooks with limited secure destruction options.

First device was the original remarkable. It was super for note taking. It was terrible at opening epubs. That didn’t change… for years.

I wanted a device that could take notes, but also parse EPUBs correctly, or at least have a browser I could hit a remote calibre server with.

I picked up a boox tab ultra c pro. Writing on it Is ~85% as good as the remarkable. Reading epubs is… terrible. They render fine, but there is so little ram on the device it’s hard to use any applications without Android force closing them. Even with a single application running, the device runs out of memory.

You can choose not to have a boox account which should keep your notes local, no guarantees of course.

I don’t know if the newer remarkable has better epub parsing, but og remarkable is where it’s at for a purely writing device.

@vince @mayintoronto by default, boox force closes everything after a few minutes :-(

But it also gives the option to shut off that action, for apps that matter to me.

Usability is … well, not what I'm used to from actual android devices. But for note taking, yes it got me off paper notebooks that I need to keep secured! It's worthwhile for me.

@deborahh @mayintoronto I’ve tried every combination of app freeze and refresh modes. Without fail, oreilly learning and moon reader both launch successfully the first time for a seemingly random interval… followed by subsequent crashes every 5-10 seconds.

Even Chrome closes readily when viewing EPUBs from a calibre server :(

If there is a solution, I actually like the device!