Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I've been using this device for about a week now, and I'm very happy with it. It's really not a proper tablet though. Yes, you can install apps and browse the web, but it's so slow that I'd always prefer to use my phone for browsing. However, if you find a good article while browsing on your phone and send it to your Note Air through Pocket - that works great. Note-taking app is cool, but turning a page in your notes will take about a second, so you won't be able to find something in your notes quickly. Also while palm rejection is perfect while writing, when I use the select tool it registers my hand as an input, so you can't touch the screen with your hand while selecting and moving things. Moving selected stuff is also pretty slow and it can be a bit challenging to place it exactly where you want it. For the last two years I've been taking all my college notes on my 2015 iPad pro which still works great, and it's a SIGNIFFICANTLY more enjoyable experience in terms of responsiveness, the ability to scroll through pages, search through hand-written notes, select and move stuff around, etc. I'd say it's fine to use Note Air for light note taking, like journaling or using it as a planner, but if you need to navigate multiple notebooks and quickly scroll through them looking for something specific, this device is just too slow for that. Reading is a whole different story though. I have my Kindle app on it for all my Amazon books, I've installed Moon+ Reader for the other books I have, and the included PDF reader works fine for me. Reading on such a big screen with gorgeous backlight with controllable color temperature is amazing. I can read 1000-page-long PDF textbooks without having to hold all that weight of a physical textbook in my hands and it's great. It may take a second to turn a page, but it doesn't really matter much when you're just reading. Also, I should mention that the device is very well built: it's super thin, made of metal and matte glass, and it's a joy to look at it and hold in hands. All in all, it's not great at note-taking (but not terrible either), it's borderline unusable for web browsing (unless you're VERY patient), but it's the best e-reader I've ever had. It's the ultimate reading device that's probably too good and too expensive for most people, If the 7" Kindle Oasis or the 8" Kobo Forma are too small for you (if you want to read PDFs comfortably, for example) or you want to be able to read books from different ecosystems (Amazon, Kobo, Overdrive, DRM-free books you've obtained somewhere else, etc) this is the device for you. Personally I love this device, but you should really think about why you want this and understand its limitations. P. S. If you don't read a lot of PDFs - consider getting the cheaper Boox Nova 3 with the same functionality, but smaller, lighter, and I suppose more comfortable to hold in one hand. P.S.S. The first-party keyboard that ONYX sells for this thing feels very VERY cheap and small, and unlike the tablet, it uses micro usb. Don't waste your money on it. Get a case with a stand or a separate tablet stand and a good third-party bluetooth keyboard if you really need it. The first-party case is also quite awful because it uses two stripes of sticky material to attach to the tablet, kind of like very thin two-sided tape. It holds the tablet alight, but you can't easily take it in and out of the case. Also, the case does not cover the sides of the tablet: only the back and the front, Really not worth the $40 they ask for it. UPDATE: I tried installing Chrome instead of the default browser, and it actually loads webpages MUCH faster! Now web browsing is actually pretty nice (as nice as it could get on an e-ink screen, I'd say). Before that I thought that the device had a very bad and slow WiFi chip, but it turned out the problem was the slow default browser.