I think both devices stand up really well, but the more I use the Mini the more I appreciate it. But it really does depend on the use case. If someone had the Air and just read novels, there just isn't a tangible difference to warrant an upgrade. But in other use cases the differences are more apparent. Thank you for the nice compliments!

@jeffreymoss Of course, you're right on device usage. I loved how the Mini handled magazines. Seems like a much smoother experience overall. On your video though, what really had me excited was using the Mini with your local library. I went full-on library geek. Have already filled forms To get my card renewed. Never thought about that, so thank you. Probably 12 yrs or more since I've visited my library and we definitely need to support them. Thanks again for all three videos.

Your comment is much appreciated, as my wife is the manager of a library. I'm going to be sure to share this comment with her!

@jeffreymoss thank you, that's awesome. My ex-wifes best friend went back to school for a second masters and went from being a teacher that would help out in the library to a well loved librarian. Librarians are beautifully brilliant!

Yeah, that was wild. You probably can't tell, but I normally work with the devices first before filming so I know what to focus on and try not to be too meandering. Despite that, I didn't notice this issue until filming and was really caught off guard by it. I'm glad I was able to figure it out and not give out the wrong information in the end!

That's an interesting comment. Visually, I tend to think that HD/Regal are about the same, and also feel that way about Balanced/Fast/Ultrafast. I won't go as far as to say that I think they are identical, but you really have to look for differences. However, I haven't studied the relationship between each mode and the battery drain. At some point I will do a simple usage battery drain test, but I wasn't planning to do a range of tests because of all the effort involved. Hopefully someone will do that and post the results on Reddit. If I come across that, I'll reference that in a future video.

@@jeffreymoss I'm very interested in the battery test. I have the TUC, I'm looking at these devices as EDC.

@@debbr2304 Ok, I'll put that on my list of things to look into.

Between the Nova Air C and the Tab Ultra Mini? I didn't notice any difference in writing. Both have a subtle, scratchy sound which I kind of like. It was also the same experience I had with the Note Air, so most of their devices are pretty consistent in that regard.

The Mini C came out at the end of June last year, and I notice they have been putting the Mini C on sale lately, so I'm thinking a follow-up model is coming. It's also been quiet from Boox lately, so they are due to announce a new product. Based on that, I'd hold off a few months and see what happens. If a new product does come out, that will leave two options, buy the latest thing or purchase the Mini C at a more favorable price. Of course, I don't have any inside information on all of this, just an outsider reading the tea leaves.

@@jeffreymoss Thanks a lot for your excellent feedback Jeff! Really appreciated.

Yeah, it handles pinch and zoom fairly well. Technically, it has front lighting, where the light comes in from the sides, bounces off the screen, and then to your eyes. But to answer your question, I never found the lighting to cause me strain.

It will depend on how you use the device. As an eReader, mainly paging through text, the battery life seems pretty good. If you scroll a lot and there are videos involved, or if you are using front lighting a lot, that will bring the battery life down. So it depends. It's not uncommon for me to read for 45 minutes and just drain 1% of the battery, which I think is pretty good. In terms of charging, I'm not sure how long it takes. I like to just plug it into my computers USB port and then I leave it to charge over night. It won't overcharge, so I don't worry about that, and while USB charging is slower overall, it may help extend the battery life over time (although that's just a suspicion on my part, it could be complete rubbish but that's my story and I'm sticking to it!). I'm not aware of a night mode for the system UI and I did look recently for it. But in general you want to work with white/light backgrounds more often than not because ghosting is harder to discern that way. It really stands out when the background is black.

@@jeffreymoss thank you.i ll receive mine today.I'll check all that !

That sounds about right to me.

Sorry to hear that. With Windows it connects just fine and it's easy to transfer files. I got the cover from Boox directly.

I don't recall that with either the air or this device. So either those weren't there for me, or they were there but it wasn't something I noticed. Seems like that would be something I'd pick up on though.

Interesting, from close ups I don't see them in most devices. Perhaps I had a faulty device and didn't even know it! I had a Nova 3 previously and assumed it was a quality decrease to accommodate the color. My Tab Mini C comes tomorrow and I have been devouring your videos in impatient anticipation! Thanks for the quality content!

Go to Settings, System Navigation, then More Settings under the Gestures section at the top right, and then that's where you can define the swipes up from the bottom of the screen. There are a lot of options to choose from.

@@jeffreymoss Thanks.

Yeah, I'm curious about that. Will there be a Kaleido 4 or have we pushed the limits of what this tech can do? I have no idea, of course, but I just reflect about that because of what Eink is trying to do with Gallery 3. That tech provides a higher pixel density than Kaleido and has a lighter background color which is nice, but as a whole it's clearly inferior to Kaleido. So why put it out there? It might be because they think Kaleido is perfected (relatively speaking) and they need to look in another direction to push the quality forward. Just speculation on my part.

They are the same. Both feature Kaleido 3 screens with the same resolutions relative to their size.

@@jeffreymoss thank you. I just bought a Note Air 3C. I was just contemplating if I made the right choice. Thank you very much 😊

I can't comment on manga, but I've read some comics on this and it's totally fine if I go cell by cell. If the whole page is shown, the art comes through fine, but the text is usually too small to read. But I do like the cell by cell navigation in Kindle and I really enjoyed reading comics that way.

@@jeffreymoss i believe comics are of larger format than manga. A manga diagonal is about 9 inches. Perhaps i should go for the Ultra C. You don't happen to have the Ultra C for comparison? :D

@@bokkoman I do have the Ultra C. If there is an app or particular manga you'd like to see, I might be able to buy it and show how it looks. As long at it isn't too expensive.

@@jeffreymoss Oh you got them all! If you have Kobo Plus, you can get the comic Invincible for free if I recall correctly. As for manga, it doesn't really matter, there's plenty, but maybe Mashle?