inkBOOK Classic 2-6" ebook Reader with e-Paper E Ink Carta Touchscreen, Open Android, App Store, Readability Enhancements, Wi-Fi, 4 GB, SD Memory Card Slot

This functions well for its intended purpose as an e-reader. I’ve used it both outdoors and indoors, and it is as easy to read as a book in both types of lighting. There are a few reasons I selected this item, and it works as advertised.1) It has physical page turn buttons and a touch screen, but you can turn off the touch screen so you don’t accidentally activate it when reading. There are 4 buttons (two on each side) that you can customize for a number of functions including deactivating the touch screen. There are also a home button on the bottom and a power/sleep button on the back that aren’t customizable. Page turns work well, no lag. I’ve read reviews of older e-readers from this company that the page turn buttons didn’t work on some of their apps. I can attest that it works with the PDF reader. I do wish that you could customize the home button, since you can access the home through the screen anyway. I’d rather use that button for deactivating the touch screen so that I could use all four side buttons for page turns depending what hand I’m using. But that’s kind of a silly gripe.2) It has a web browser. I didn’t buy this to surf the web per say, and have only done a little test run of the guardian newspaper. Works just like any phone or tablet, but pretty slow scrolling since it’s e-ink. I only plan to use this to read longer articles or for recipes, not to watch cat videos or peruse facebook.3) So far, I’ve mostly only used this to read a book which was published as a PDF. By going into the fonts menu, you can change the setting to format the PDF so that it reads like any other book would. Unfortunately, after you turn off the reader and turn it back on, if you go back to the same PDF, you have to change the setting to format it like a book again—it doesn’t remember the last setting. Takes about 5-10 seconds to do, so minor gripe.4) It has no ads.5) It functions with lots of different formats, so you aren’t married to any particular purveyor of e books.I’ve only had it for a week, so can’t speak to battery or longevity or any of the apps, since I haven’t bothered to download any. Customer service is good: I impatiently emailed the customer support to ask a question which I promptly figured out on my own. They responded by the next morning with a helpful answer to my question. I thought about getting a case for it, and checked the specs; I believe a kindle cover would fit it as it’s about 1 mm smaller than the kindle on each side.I selected this item after doing my own research, and paid full price for this item. I don't normally write reviews, but since I took a gamble with this reviewless item, I thought I'd help others.

Battery life is not what I expected - I would read a book for a few hours and the battery would drop quite a bit, like by 20%. I don't foresee it lasting for weeks. Days yes but probably not more than a week of regular reading.I bought this to mainly use my library's overdrive app but found that you can't actually download the books straight onto the device (or the app!!). I still had to use a web browser on my laptop, download and then transfer the files with Adobe digital edition with a cable.For the price it's not too bad, It does the job. However the in built bookstore and app store and a bit...redundant. given that they don't have much. I think I might have preferred going for something else but, the price of this and the fact that it does do a basic job doesn't make me have too much buyers regret either.Really would have liked a longer battery life though. Once you use wifi it shoots down even faster.Some taps on my screen are unresponsive too and require multiple taps to register.The page turn buttons on either side are really useful.

I assume this marks the end of the line for inkBOOK. I had an earlier model and really liked having a fully unlocked android device with an e-ink screen. After my previous inkBOOK got damaged, I was happy enough to replace it with another one, assuming a newer model would be even better.No dice. This thing was finicky all the while, struggled to connect with WiFi, comes with all sorts of weird presets (why does wifi turn off after 5 minutes as a default?). More importantly (in a bad way) the app store had been stripped to almost nothing. I liked using my old inkBOOK for simple e-mail and news checks using android apps. No dice here unless you side-load virtually EVERYTHING (the app store contains only a few e-reader apps), and then getting apps to cooperate with this ancient android OS is a gigantic pain. Even Overdrive, a key app for reading library e-books, has to be side-loaded. A tedious and absurd battle. I finally just tossed the thing in the trash when the web browser (which I was using to read some online books) started going haywire any time I put the device to sleep.This thing was just a disaster. inkBOOK was a great concept, in my view, but this level of regression has to spell doom. Do not buy.

I bought this because back lit readers were stopping me from going to sleep. For this purpose the InkBook is fine.My big problem is that at least once every one hundred pages or so it will jump to the wrong page upon opening. Often it's 100= pages off - Most frequently it goes back to the cover.The book I am now reading has 958 pages. After recharging the InkBook it went back to the cover instead of somewhere in the lower 500s where I was up to. Tird time it reverted to the cover with this book. Went somewhere in the 800s once, also.

Very nice e-reader. I downloaded goodereader e-ink app store to get moon+ reader and colordict offline wordnet dictionary. Very lightweight but sturdy build quality. Works with Calibre. Happy with it.

Love this ereader , I was able to put all my Kindle books in, and all my kobo book, between the two around 500 books.

A little glitchy in the key response but otherwise good. I like that I can store gigs of books and find books easier than on my kindle and nook.

As a Librarian and library ebook guru, I love the open platform to easily use multiple ereader apps. I still prefer eink for pleasure reading over lcd for comfort.

If you want something like a Kindle where there is no set up required then this might not be for you BUT if you want a fantastic and flexible little e-reader which is great value for money then look no further. The e-ink screen means a long, long time between charges (maybe two weeks) providing you are not using WiFi much. Only down side is no back light but the display is very clear even at low light levels. It has a MicroSD slot which will take up to a 32GB card on which you can put your own epub/mobi/pdf files. You cannot run Google Play Store and as it comes (out of the box), there are not many applications in its application store (maybe a dozen or so) BUT if you go on the goodreader.com web site and look for InkBook Classic 2 Review then there are instructions for downloading their e-Ink play store (completely legal). You copy the downloaded APK file onto the MicroSD card and select it with the file browser and suddenly your have LOTS of applications at your disposal! I run Mantano Reader, Amazon Kindle Reader, Pocket Manga + Firefox for web browsing. Utterly brilliant little e-reader and just what I wanted.

An excellent choice for a basic e-reader that allows me to install both the Kindle and Kobo Android apps, and borrow books using my local library's Overdrive facility (my old Kindle did not allow this).The Kindle app doesn't function perfectly, as it was not designed for e-ink. eg. books appear on the front page but can't be accessed from there and instead need a few more clicks through the app, the page turn buttons don't work so it's touchscreen-only, and some problems with touchscreen when highlights appear. But it seems quite usable so far.The Midiapolis book store that is default won't be of much use to many as most of the titles are in Polish.

This item is well built but absolutely dreadful. The fonts are too small and despite an hour to Amazon support could not be changed, resulting in a return.Apart from the font size, the contrast is poor, anything grey is a illegible.The device is slow.The version of Android is ancient and cannot be updated (v4).It does not have the play store, just a third party one.There is no headphone socket.Highly dissapointing, given I have purchased a larger faster more modern tablet for less 3 years ago. I understand e-Ink displays aren't as cheap as LCDs, but this is still ridiculous.

I purchased the product when I was abroad and relied on informal mail delivery from family. As neither they nor I were expecting the shoebox sized package it arrived in, the item was not forwarded to me. On my return to UK I fired it up and attempted to add Kobo from inkBooks site. It installed but I could not log into Kobo my account. InkBook said that as the Kobo app. was not theirs the failure has nothing to do with them. As my return to the UK puts me outside the 30 day return period I am out £68.00. If your use is with KOBO, do not buy.

Very good. Took a bit of getting used to as operating instructions are inside instead of being printed out in a leaflet for dummies like me. Not as good as my old Sony but at half the price I'm happy enough.