BOOX Tablet Go 10.3 ePaper E Ink Tablet No Front Light 4G 64G 300 PPI B/W

Perfect fit for my needs
I’m not a new to digitizer tablets, but this is my first E-Ink notepad (I’ve used multiple Samsung Galaxy tablets, the Surface Pro 2 back in the day, even the Palm C waaay back). I went down a deep rabbit hole before I finally decided on the Boox Go.My criteria were (1) really good writing experience, (2) Microsoft productivity apps OneNote, OneDrive, and Loop (don’t judge, they’re what we have at work), and (3) a lightweight e-reader with crisp text for my aging eyes. I went back and forth about the absence of lighting, but it was finally the writing experience that sold me. That’s the killer feature…the notes app. It is really low latency, and the E-ink Carta is so close to the nib that it really does get closer to a pen and paper feel than anything else I’ve seen.I have been using it as a work tablet for 3 weeks now as a primary note taker, and it has been a very good experience. Previously, on LED screen devices, I found that my handwriting (not good to begin with) degraded to the point of useless illegibility… Not so here. This thing actually improves my note taking. It’s almost as good as carrying a large hardcover journal., but without the bulk of a…large hardcover journal.It’s amazingly thin and light, while remaining very stiff (I, as some other users I saw online, could not bend it).I also just finished a two day seminar wherein I used the native Neo Reader to view and annotate PDFs. The same accuracy and responsiveness as the Notes app is found here, though I found the toggle between full screen and pinch to zoom a bit clunky. Like a lot of other functions, the BOOX design goes more ‘power user’ by favoring a lot of low level functionality tweaks over a short learning curve. I mention that because it does get a little hard on my older eyes to read letter sized PDFs full page format.I have also used OneNote and OneDrive’s built in PDF annotator. There is a significant tradeoff here, in that pen responsiveness is much poorer, though functionality is all there. As this wasn’t the greatest writing experience, I ended up using the native Notes app and enabling a clever feature which automatically saves a PDF version of the entire notebook to a location of your choice. Good enough for my needs.Another nice feature of the app manager is that you can easily set up work and personal configurations of most apps. This enables a separate app icon for, say, two OneDrive accounts. It makes for a basic but usable work profile.Libby (download from Play Store) works just fine. Text is very clear, though I couldn’t disable the swipe animations (which trigger a full screen refresh every time). There is a simple workaround, though, and that’s navigating by tapping the left or right margin, just like the old Barnes and Noble Nook.I don’t use the Onyx account at all. This is a hybrid work device, and I’m as careful as I can be as to where my work data is stored. I would rather lose my notes than have them fall into the wrong hands, and frankly, I wasn’t able to get the level of trust I needed to store anything in the Onyx cloud.One last thing, and this isn’t really the Go’s issue, but some of the third party cases have magnets in them which tended to distort the digitizer response, especially in the corners. It looks like a defect in the screen, with the pen line not tracking the nib location, but it disappears when you remove the cover. Just something to be aware of.All in all, I am very happy with this device!

Dopo due anni di remarkable 2, ho deciso di acquistare questo dispositivo. Sono soddisfattissimo, dalla qualità costruttiva alle prestazioni, alla possibilità di installare app e, non ultima, la mitigazione delle privacy issues. Consigliato al cento per cento.

I’m heavily invested in the Apple ecosystem and come from a Remarkable 2, so I appreciate quality kit, and the Boox Go 10.3 is absolutely gorgeous. It’s a beautiful device to hold and use – the build quality is outstanding.The feeling of writing is super important to me for a device like this. The Remarkable 2 was the best I’d tried so far, but this device equals it. I did find the supplied pen to be a little “scratchy”, but it’s grown on me. I can also use the Staedtler pen I’d bought to use with the Remarkable for a smoother writing experience.I decided to sell the Remarkable and switch to the Boox as my primary note-taker. The Notes app in the Boox has a lot more functionality than the Remarkable. In addition and of most importance to me was the ability to download other apps on the Google store. So I can now use this fabulous eInk device for more of my reading, including my RSS feeds, Pocket articles, magazines with Libby, and of course eBooks which I’m using with KOReader.This is probably my favourite device this year and allows me to do a lot more reading on eInk and distraction-free.I don’t miss the front-light. My use is either outdoors or indoors under lighting and I’ve not had a situation yet where I couldn’t use the device due to lack of lighting.You don’t get the “free” case when ordering from Amazon, but most reviews of that I’ve seen aren’t particularly positive, so no great loss. I purchased a sleeve case for now until such time as third-party flip covers come out.