A new Meebook ereader was released recently called the Meebook M8, and it has just turned up for sale on Amazon for $259 with free shipping.
Meebooks have been around for a while now (they used to be called Likebooks). They’re another Android-powered Chinese brand similar to Onyx, but Onyx no longer offers models in this size, and the Meebook M8 looks like it has a solid set of features for the price.
It has a 7.8-inch E Ink screen, which is a size that you don’t see very often anymore. It has 300 ppi, and a frontlight with temperature control. Apparently the screen also supports stylus input, but the listing says a stylus isn’t included so you’d have to purchase one separately.
The Meebook M8 has 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage space, and there’s also a memory card slot that supports cards up to 1TB. The device has an octa-core 2.2GHz CPU. It supports Bluetooth 5.2 and Wi-Fi 6. It has dual speakers and dual mics. It also has a rotation sensor and a USB-C port with OTG support. The battery size is 3200mAh. The weight is listed at 265 grams, and the overall dimensions are 193 x 140 x 7mm.
One nice thing about the Meebook M8 is it runs Android 14, which is a newer version than what’s available on most current Android ereaders, and it also supports Google Play for installing Android apps.
In addition to Android reading apps, the M8 also has its own built-in reading app called ZReader that supports a wide range of common formats, including EPUB, EPUB3, PDF, CBR, CBZ, AZW3, MOBI, TXT, DOC, DOCX, FB2, RTF, HTML, CAJ, DJVU, PPT, PPTX, and ZIP, among others, but like other Android ereaders it doesn’t natively support ebooks with DRM (you have to use Android apps for DRM’d content).
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