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Onyx Boox Poke 3 e-Reader with Free Case

Onyx Boox Poke 3 e-Reader with Free Case – Good e-Reader

$189.99

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Display: E-Ink Carta HD Touchscreen
Screen Size: 6.0 inch
Display Resolution：1448×1072
PPI: 300
WACOM Active Digitizer: No
Front Light – Yes
Color Temperature – Yes
Processor：Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 processor
RAM：2GB DDR4X
Internal Storage：32GB
Physical Page Turn Buttons: No
Micro SD: No
WIFI: Yes (2.4GHz + 5GHz)

Operating System: Android 10
Battery：1,500 mAh
Digital Pen：No
Data Connector：USB-C (OTG)
Bluetooth: 5.0
Waterproof: No
Audio: Bluetooth

Length：153mm
Width：107mm
Thickness：6.8mm
Weight: 150g

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SKU: onyxbooxpoke3
Category: e-Readers

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The Onyx Boox Poke 3 is an entry level e-reader with a six inch screen. This device puts reading first, whether it is an ebook, manga, newspaper, magazine or comic. Poke 3 employs the 4th generation E Ink HD Carta display with 300 PPI, offering a truly paper-like reading experience. It provides high-level customization, such as the ability to change fonts and font sizes, adjust image or text contrast, bold text, reflow and tons more.

The Poke 3 features a 6 inch E INK Carta HD capacitive touchscreen display with a resolution of 1448×1072 and 300 PPI. It has a glass based screen that is flush with the bezel. It has a great front-lit display with white LED lights, that provide a great reading experience when in dark rooms. There are amber LED lights, they provide a warm candlelight effect, so you can read at night, and help mute the white light. There is no WACOM layer with this product, so you cannot interact with the screen with a stylus.

Underneath the hood is a Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 processor, 2GB of DDR4X RAM and 32GB of internal storage. The Poke 3 now has a USB-C OTG port to power and transfer documents. It also has Bluetooth 5.0 to connect up wireless headphones or an external speaker. This is great because the Poke 2 only had Micro USB and an earlier version of Bluetooth. It has a microphone and powered by a respectable 1,500 mAH battery. The Poke 3 is around 33% faster than the Poke 2, primarily because of the new processor and faster RAM.

One of the big selling points is Android 10 and Google Play. You get a really modern OS, that will be relevant for years to come. It is compatible with basically any app you want to install, such as Kindle, Overdrive Libby, Scribd, Kobo, Nook, Moon+ Reader and tons of others.

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Review: Nine months with an Onyx Boox Poke3 e-reader | by James Cridland

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Apr 2, 2021

(I updated this review in December 2021)

For a while, I’ve had a Kobo Aura One, a rather fine ebook reader that has served me well. My main use-case has been sitting in planes reading books, though for whatever reason (gestures outside) I’ve not been doing that too much recently. My secondary use-case is quietly reading in bed.

I’ve long waved goodbye to the Amazon Kindle. I strip any DRM off any books that I buy (if they have DRM), and store them in .epub format. I don’t need, nor want, Amazon’s bookstore service. Hence why I initially went with the Kobo.

The Kobo Aura One is a really, really good device. With continuing software updates, a large screen and decent backlight, it is very good indeed. So… why would I be interested in the Poke3?

Firstly, Overdrive, a way that I can borrow books from my local library, has now added magazines. The Kobo doesn’t support those (and that’s fine), but I rather enjoy The Economist every week and rather hoped that I could read it on something that wasn’t my large Android tablet.

Secondly, while I discovered how to add additional font faces to my Kobo, the display still isn’t quite as I’d like it. A recent book that I’m reading has full justification, which for a book is an idiotic design choice; however, I can’t override that decision on the Kobo if it’s baked into the book. I like being able to tweak and fiddle, and make a book look as readable as possible. I’ll read an older Paul Theroux book with the Linux Libertine font, a gloriously old-fashioned serif; and read a modern US book with Literata, Google’s crisp and clean serif font for ebook readers. The font has to match the book, in my mind. Yes, I’m this fiddly.

Step forward the Poke3.

The Onyx Boox Poke3 appealed to me because it is an eink reader, but it also runs Android. Android 10, to be precise. And since Libby (for Overdrive) and two readers, Moon+ Reader Pro and KOReader, all run on Android, I thought it might be worth a try.

The Poke3 also got my interest since it has a USB-C cable, rather than the older micro USB. I decided a few years ago that I don’t really want to buy anything else with a micro USB, given the amount of cables and leads I carry around with me is already annoying enough.

The device comes in quite good packaging: a minimal cardboard box with a tray inside, a charging cable and the device itself both wrapped in a soft plastic bag marked with a recycling code 7 CPE. (It turns out that this means it probably can’t be recycled but at least they’ve tried). A warranty card and a quick start guide (in 17 languages) are also included, using what appears to be non-bleached paper.

The device itself is tiny and light. It’s built well, with a glass-feeling front panel and no recesses to get gunk into. Both the front, and the plastic back, are fingerprint magnets, attracting the oil from your fingertips and making it look grubby almost immediately. The serial number is printed on the back of the device but looks to be coming off already. But it’s a nice device; the chin on it giving you somewhere to hold it that isn’t touching the screen.

For an Android device, it boots up very quickly: probably under ten seconds or so. Very impressive.

Enabling Android is not the best experience: but it isn’t the device’s fault. Google doesn’t allow eInk devices like this to gain proper Android certification, so it’s a bit fiddly to get it to access the Google Play store. There’s a menu option to register a Google GSFID to your Google account, which essentially identifies this non-verified device as yours. That takes an hour or so to percolate through Google’s systems.

But once that’s done, you get the normal Google Play store and you can install anything you like.

Once you do, hold-touch the icon for your chosen app, and choose the “Optimise” menu item. This allows you to change a few of the settings: the Poke3 likes to try to make the screen super-readable by changing the colours (it doesn’t normally work), and fiddling with the DPI (don’t let it).

This is not the kind of experience you’d give someone who wasn’t confident with computers, to be honest. It’s not helped by the English not being translated very well: which seems a shame and an unnecessary saving, given one day’s translation work is likely to be relatively cheap.

Anyway, after all of that, I’ve installed everything I need.

Well, I’m glad you asked.

I started with Moon+ Reader, which allows themes, so I set two up: one which is white paper, black text; another which is the reverse for night-time. They both work very well indeed. The main experience of turning through pages, etc, works excellently with minimum refreshing on the standard screen mode. I prefer the Regal screen mode, which refreshes on every page turn (but that’s just me).

Moon+ Reader also syncs the book and your reading position to your Google Drive, so I can open a new book on my phone and it’s relatively easy to then open it on the e-reader. It’s a really nice, and endlessly configurable, experience.

I then discovered KOReader, which is even more configurable. It’s actually available for the Kobo, too, but hellishly difficult to install. It has a super-confusing interface that needs quite a lot of understanding it, but it’s also the most configurable piece of software that there is: capable of tweaking everything. It’s very good, and free software: available through F-Droid (and not through Google Play).

Particularly, KOReader can be configured to write an image of the current book you’re reading to the screensaver directory, so when your device is on standby, it displays the book cover. I like that.

For magazines, Libby is great. The annoying lozenge blob visible in the above image is now able to be removed: it takes you to a text-only view, but the display is just about readable (and of course you can pinch/zoom in).

It’s also perfectly usable as a book reader, though (of course) nowhere near as configurable as KOReader is.

I’d also recommend the EinkBro web browser. Using the Chrome rendering engine, it adds a few interesting things like being able to scroll through a webpage one page at a time, rather than the slightly smudgy experience of a normal browser on the eink display.

My primary concern running Android was that the battery life would be quite poor. It isn’t. My initial plan was to set it to turn off completely after 15 minutes of non-use: but it turns out you really don’t need to do that. It’s now set just to go to sleep after 15 minutes, and to turn off after 24 hours of non-use. Apart from turning on instantly, it also keeps the standby screensaver image on-screen, which I’ve set to be the book cover.

There’s a “store”, but it only has about twenty free books in it, and they are all public domain.

The way to typically get a book onto this device, if you’re going to use the inbuilt reader, is to use the ‘Transfer Books’ app. This is a simple and clever thing: it gives you a web address to visit (and a QR code to type in). Visit that on your computer, and it connects to the inbuilt webserver in this tablet, so you can upload a file directly into your book reader: no wired connection necessary. Nice. It works fine from my Android phone. So should Android’s Nearby, I guess, but I’ve not tried it.

The inbuilt reader is called NeoReader and, well, look, I’m sure it’s fine for most people, though I don’t like it.

It also comes with a web browser, which is essentially the Android WebView; a calendar, an email service, a calculator, a clock, a music player, and other things that have no place on an ebook reader.

It got a new firmware update in December 2021, which didn’t appear to change much other than the look and feel of the system icons.

There are two backlights. One is orange, and one is blue. Turn them on together and you get a white light. You have good control of the brightness level; my usual complaint with these is that the dimmest level is still just too bright for sitting in bed in the dark, and this one is just the same as the others. If only it had one more notch.

The power light has a blue LED in it, to reassure you when you turn it on that it’s doing something. It is a piercingly bright blue LED light, but to my eyes, everything that is a blue LED is piercingly bright, so I think it’s my eyes at fault.

Charging it is a little strange: it charges, but the screen doesn’t realise. Look carefully at the power light, and you’ll see it’s changed colour to red. But look at the screen, and you’ll not see the battery level change at all, so you think it isn’t charging. Pull the charging lead out after an hour or so, and, hey presto, it’s been charging after all.

The screen, like any eInk reader, has a number of different settings that you can change the screen to. After a little fiddling, I’ve changed it on the app level to use ‘Regal’ for both the apps I use the most: that’s the closest to an original Kindle, and does a lot of refreshing and flickering the screen with the byproduct that the screen always looks crisp and sharp. I’m fine with this and I enjoy the tweaking.

It has Bluetooth, and apparently can connect to your headphones for audiobooks (which Libby would do), and text to speech (which Moon+Reader does). I listened to a little of a book through Moon+Reader and it was as good an experience as an automated voice is ever going to be, which is to say, not brilliant. I guess the audiobook experience on Libby would be better, though I suspect I’d use my phone.

You can also “cast” to a Chromecast-capable speaker or screen. I’ve casted it to the bedroom Google Mini speaker once. It works.

Yes. It’s very good, actually, as something that works as an ebook reader. It won’t ever feel snappy, thanks to the display type, but seems to work surprisingly well for everything.

Would I buy it for a fun and extensible Android eInk tablet? Yes. It’s a great ebook reader, and works really well. It’s brilliant being able to use other Android apps on it, and I very much like being able to get something displaying just the way I want it.

If you aren’t technical and just want to read with the minimum of fuss, I’d recommend a Kobo: this hasn’t quite got there with usability out-of-the-box. But if you’re willing to play about a little, this is by far the most tweakable, flexible e-reader around.

Second Level – Page 259 – Guild Set Tirion (Horde)

Goinsane

Sent by 11 December 2012 – 12:52

of course) special reason) lack of heals) in particular rshamas)

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Start playing on Isengard?

Join our community!

Play on the most efficient and stable Russian-language WoW server without donating game values!

Sent by 11 December 2012 – 12:55

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Sent by 11 December 2012 – 12:58

and what kind of shit is Vasily?

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Sent by 11 December 2012 – 12:59

what the hell is vasily?

Music

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Goinsane

Sent by 11 December 2012 – 13:03

http://www. zaycev.ne…61/126131.shtml

http://muzofon.com/s…Dog Silent Moon

http://vkontakte.dj/cat/track /32459106

I should have posted something like this at night, but now I want to sleep in a place to go on business!

but so-and-so. Under the deep blue state will roll.

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Meyhem

Sent by 11 December 2012 – 13:04

No inquiries, only through the bed!

And in general, send meikha to study!

I overslept (

lack of shama and that’s why you are a dts?))

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Sent by 11 December 2012 – 13:07

don’t be an owl! otherwise they are either slackers or stupid, be it a tree!

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Sent by 11 December 2012 – 13:07

GO THEN MEAN TIME YOU HAVE ALREADY LOST STUDY!

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Meyhem

Sent by on 11 December 2012 – 13:11

don’t be an owl! otherwise they are either slackers or stupid, be it a tree!

this Vasya doesn’t allow me) I don’t like Savoy either, I collect healers) and already dts, rsham, rdru are sitting in statics, there was a hpal

LET’S GO THEN SPEECH YOU HAVE ALREADY SLEEPED STUDY!

wait I’m not wearing makeup

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Sheldrey

Sent by 11 December 2012 – 13:12

don’t be an owl! otherwise they are either slackers or stupid, be it a tree!

Do you know that you will get fucked up soon from all the owls?

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Sent by 11 December 2012 – 13:14

this Vasya doesn’t let me) I don’t like Savoy either, I collect healers) and so already dts, rsham, rdru sit in statics, I’m left snoring

wait, I’m not made up

shosh shosh oshOSHO sho SHOSHOSHOSH SHOSHOSHOSHO?! I don’t force
, just to be a cat means a lot of miles . … to be an owl means to poke 3 buttons and use starfall and at the same time shout that you are TOP SAVA!

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Meyhem

Sent by 11 December 2012 – 13:15

shosh shoshos shosho shoshoshoshos shoshoshosho?! I don’t force
, just to be a cat means a lot of miles …. to be an owl means to poke 3 buttons and use starfall and at the same time shout that you are TOP SAVA!

I poke 4 buttons and starfol! and dps somewhere near the tanks

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Sheldrey

Sent by 11 December 2012 – 13:16

Only I can scream like that

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Sent by 11 December 2012 – 13:16

just need to masturbate, even when the first time I was an owl I gave 5k dps

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Sent by on 11 December 2012 – 13:25

All whips, I’m top. (well, except for Meiha)

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Watari

Sent by on 11 December 2012 – 13:25

Can you give a clear answer or not about joining the Guild, otherwise about some certificates and a bed, what the hell are you talking about here?

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Sent by 11 December 2012 – 13:27

All whips, I’m top. (well, except for meiha)

Dead monkey, go suck her cock! Top fucking

Can you give a clear answer or not about joining the Guild, otherwise about some certificates and a bed, what the hell are you talking about here?

you’ve already been told, if you don’t understand what it’s all about, then you’re not on the road with us!

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Sheldrey

Sent by on 11 December 2012 – 13:28

Can you give a clear answer or not about joining the Guild, otherwise about some certificates and a bed, what the hell are you talking about here?

Recruitment is closed, especially for melees and tanks (exceptions are sometimes made for casters). If you bake in rshama – contact us.

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Meyhem

Sent by 11 December 2012 – 13:31

Dead monkey, go suck his cock! TOP fucking

are you sho, you got in?

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Sent by on 11 December 2012 – 13:31

Dead monkey, go suck his cock! Top fucking

you’ve already been told, if you don’t understand what it’s all about, then you’re not on the road with us!

Ahahahahaha))) oter we have to take resi one buff clk shoby he at least de then shone in recount XD

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retropaladins per alliance – Communication

SaintsFtol

Sent by 15 April 2019 – 07:23

I moved here recently from the circle (not advertising and PR), because I recently found out about the server, which I regret.

But having joined the ranks of the alliance for the proto-paladin (there are not so many paladins on the circle, they make up 30% of the total online), I noticed a very terrible class imbalance. very often 3 paladins are registrated, and the struggle will begin for who is more tanky, who has more lvl.

I don’t have anything against the fires, but what kind of hype is this? where is the balance? Why does everyone take them? All newfags? No, I don’t think so. class rarity, but no.

Shameful.

Retropaladins, what are you doing ahaah stop it. I have everything

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Join our community!

Play on the most efficient and stable Russian-language WoW server without donating game valuables!

TipoWar

Sent by 15 April 2019 – 07:54

paladin is not only a valuable fur, but also …

– 3 specs

– easy dps (healing, tanking)

– buffs (who the hell you can interrogate)

– take more than 1 per raid (and not like rogues and locks, 1 each is enough)

9000 4 —( well, shm and valanir can be made for one Persian, but it doesn’t matter)

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Jakrevedko

Sent by 15 April 2019 – 09:27

retro, not retro.

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laerra

Sent by 15 April 2019 – 09:30

P.S. Retribution (See En at https://wotlk.ezhead…?spells=7.2.184)
A bit late:c

Post has been editedJAGUARK: 15 April 2019 – 09:33

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rpu6oeg

Sent by 15 April 2019 – 09:55

or already, at least, ROTRO.

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Gammxx

Sent by 15 April 2019 – 09:59

It’s just that Isengard’s contingent is a bit smarter than the circle, because they quickly realized that it’s easier to play as a pala to poke 3-4 buttons and be in the top in dps / hps / aggro than to sweat for other classes and be in the ass. Well, the fella also has a schm, and everyone masturbates at the chm.

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Vivi Ornitier

Sent by 15 April 2019 – 10:45

I’m sure it’s not due to the fact that 2 pvp paladins are much juicier than one. (not sure)

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Demandred

Sent by 15 April 2019 – 12:51

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RdArno

Sent by 15 April 2019 – 13:47

everything is retro here, in the yard 2019 and we have a lich here. So we do afro, play with retro Opaladins.

Although, in fact, 95% of these are palo-imitators who did not even play a paladin in vanilla.

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TipoWar

Sent by 15 April 2019 – 14:04

here everything is retro, in the yard in 2019 and we have a lich here. So we do afro, play with retro Opaladins.

Although, in fact, 95% of these are palo-imitators who did not even play a paladin in vanilla.

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cpuuse

Sent by 15 April 2019 – 14:09

Well, paladins are universal, speaking of patch 3.3.5. So everyone is told to play (start) as a paladin. For to know the mechanics of World War II, square cosinosine triganometric battle tactics in pvp. Leveling a character from 1-80 is more than easy. Everyone advises to start with them.

I hit twice: once on the head, the second on the lid of the coffin!

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notiam

Sent by 15 April 2019 – 14:14

But the Negro Paladin is from diablae, and there is no charisma; [

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Teralion

Sent by 15 April 2019 – 14:46

Paly gays and all)

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TipoWar

Sent by 15 April 2019 – 15:36

some paladinism

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Blackpower1488

Sent 15 April 2019 – 16:46

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kobani

Sent by 15 April 2019 – 19:18

“there are not so many paladins on the circle, they make up 30% of the total online”, only 30% IS NOT MUCH, IF YOU REMEMBER HOW MANY CLASSES PER LUX

Post has been edited by kobani: 15 April 2019 – 19:19

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Rodionov

Sent by 15 April 2019 – 21:00

The most boring class and a bit gay in pvp (depends on various factors including the person himself)

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Apotheoses

Sent by on 16 April 2019 – 02:23

king class

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dePunk

Sent by 16 April 2019 – 07:42