The eBook Reader Blog

Onyx has started selling a new Boox reading light. It’s the kind that you wear around your neck that rests on your chest with the light pointing outward. Seeing it is like traveling back in time to when ebook readers didn’t have frontlights. Back then ebook reader reading lights were quite common. Fittingly the pictures […]

Onyx has a new 10.3-inch Note 2 model that has been revealed at a trade show in Hong Kong. The new Note 2 is basically a combination of the Note Pro and the new 13.3-inch Onyx Max3. It has the same exact design as the Note Pro, but with a different-colored backplate, and it has […]

Review Date: October 2019 – Review unit purchase from Amazon Released in September 2019, the Onyx Boox Max3 is Onyx’s latest new device that serves multiple functions: it can be used as an ereader, a digital notepad, and as a secondary E Ink monitor, among other things if you’re creative enough. Like the previous Onyx […]

The Onyx Boox Max3 is Onyx’s latest new device, their first to run Android 9.0, and it comes with some nice upgrades, but is it really worth $300 more than the Onyx Note Pro? Both devices are largely the same from a software standpoint (especially once Onyx updates the Note Pro to Android 9.0). The […]

The Onyx Boox Max3 is the latest device from Onyx. Like earlier Max models it has a non-frontlit 13.3-inch E Ink screen, but they’ve updated the design on this newer model and they upgraded some of the hardware components and updated the software to Android 9.0. One of the main differentiating features on Onyx’s Max […]

Last week Onyx announced the release of a new 13.3-inch ereader, notepad, and E Ink monitor called Onyx Boox Max3. The device is now listed on Amazon for $859 with free shipping and it can be delivered later this week. The main upgrades with the Max3 model are a faster 2GHz octa-core processor and USB […]

Onyx has just revealed a new 13.3-inch ereader, notepad, and E Ink monitor called the Onyx Boox Max3. They updated the design so that it’s similar to the Onyx Boox Note and Nova, except it’s available in white instead of black. They also added a fingerprint sensor to the Max3, and it supports USB OTG […]

I don’t know if it’s permanent or if it’s a limited time deal, but the 10.3-inch Onyx Note Pro is currently selling for $50 less on Amazon than it used to sell for. The Note Pro has been listed at $599 since it was released earlier this year. Now it’s priced at $549 with free […]