Note Max

Onyx BOOX

Note Max

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WARNING: Do NOT Buy Onyx BOOX. $500 Note Air5 C turned into a DEAD BRICK in less than a month, and support has completely GHOSTED me.

Over the years, I have owned and used: Note 5 Note Air 3C Tab X Go 10.3 Note Max Note Air 5C Go 7 Palma Pro 2 Go 10.3 II Lumi All worked flawlessly with zero issues. That being said, I buy them on Amazon, not from Boox directly, so I can easily return them if I need to.

nick_ian in r/Onyx_Boox

May 21, 2026 at 6:09 a.m.

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BOOX Official Shop Return Horror

Thanks folks for your suggestions. I just initiated the chargeback at my debit card company. Note Max was really impressive for me, and I know small and medium enterprises like BOOX are dealing with all sorts of challenges, so I don't want to be too harsh on them. It's just that the service quality

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Lazy-Illustrator-248 in r/Onyx_Boox

July 29, 2026 at 2:33 a.m.

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Help please! Note Max - Writing Delay

Yes this is completely normal. Just the nature of the technology. Some devices from other OEMs have less latency and you would not see that. For the Note Max and probably Boox in general, normal.

apolishguy in r/Onyx_Boox

July 15, 2026 at 5:26 p.m.

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I am a big fan of .pdf books. these are my devices for reading pdf files 1 galaxy tab ultra for magazines 2 macbook air for skimming papers 3 ipad pro for textbooks 4 surface go for nonfiction 5. boox note air 5c for fiction and 6 kindle for manga I read pdf files exclusively and i don’t like epub

Wouldn't just a single boox note max 13.3 do the job with .pdf?

ResidentIll6511 in r/ereader

May 9, 2026 at 5:03 a.m.

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Best e-ink tablet for heavy book PDF reading in a PhD?

  1. PDF handling — clean rendering, easy navigation, no fighting the device Boox and NeoReader is going to be best at this, e.g. it's very good at reflowing PDFs. 3. Annotation and highlighting — needs to work smoothly, and I would like to get highlights/notes out in a usable format. same for this. 4. Z
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starkruzr in r/eink

February 25, 2026 at 5:47 a.m.

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Buying BOOX Note Max in 2026?

Favourite of my BOOX devices. IMO, Voya blew things way out of proportion with his ranting and then others blew that out of propotion. 4.1 didn't bother me much and I'm fine with 4.2.. Ghosting for me has been a minor anooyance, mainly because at that price, a full regal refresh should be clean, but

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CheffoJeffo in r/Onyx_Boox

June 22, 2026 at 6:18 p.m.

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It's time to check the competition

I'm not quite at the point of leaving RM altogether, but I will agree that colored e-ink just doesn't seem like it's a very reliable point in its development. Having both the RM2 and RMPP (and using both regularly), it definitely seems like monochrome e-ink is the more robust of the two. Makes me wi

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Sezbeth in r/RemarkableTablet

February 18, 2026 at 5:26 p.m.

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Is the Note Air 5 C a better choice than a Kindle Scribe for grad school?

overwhelmingly, yes. the Kindle Scribe is really only useful for a particular kind of person who is still primarily concerned only with reading in the Amazon ecosystem. it is also wildly overpriced for what it does. for grad students I would recommend either the Supernote Manta, Note Air5 C, Go 10.3

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starkruzr in r/Onyx_Boox

July 14, 2026 at 4:05 p.m.

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[April 2026 Megathread] UX Feedback & Feature Improvements

In the notes app: Friction: trying to find specific notes from months back in a large notebook is very challenging. Recommendations: SuperNote has the title function where you could select some words and create a title or chapter marker from that selection. Then, in the navigator, you could easily s

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CAM_Data_F3EDC in r/Onyx_Boox

April 13, 2026 at 10:57 p.m.

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Biggest frustration with 4.1

Boox hardware is being seriously let down by the software. I have 3 premium Boox devices and can no longer give them the benefit of the doubt anymore (Tab X, Note Max, Air 4C). My Note Max felt abadoned within 4 months of release. Software is also non-inutitive and really not enjoyable to use.

Rgbrgb2001 in r/Onyx_Boox

February 11, 2026 at 10:18 p.m.

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