I was recently in the market for a new ereader and decidedly wary of staying in Mr. Bezos' walled garden. Besides that time in 2009, when Amazon remotely deleted George Orwell's 1984 from devices due to a rights issue, more recent news has also given me pause. For example, did you know that as of February, it's now much harder to download and back up Kindle ebooks you've paid for? If I was going to jump the garden wall, now was the time—and Boox presents an alternative.
What's more, Boox's new colour E-ink monitor functions not unlike a massive Kindle Colorsoft (via Ars Technica). The catch? It costs almost as much as seven Kindle Colorsofts strapped together. On the other hand, BOOX Super Refresh technology plus an entire button dedicated to wiping away ghosting artefacts gives it the charming look of tech that fell out of a lost, retrofitted future.
