Logos on the Boox Note Air 3C e-ink Android tablet

I love studying the Bible, and using Logos 10 is one of my favorite things to do. But my eyes get sore quite easily when I'm using a tablet for most of my reading, and so I've been waiting for this day. The day when an e-ink tablet can be Android powerful enough to do Logos and do it well. This Color Ink tablet I just got yesterday, and I've been playing around with it. I thought I'd show you a bit of the unboxing and then move into putting Logos on. So let's do that now. Installing Logos just uses the Google Store, Play Store, and as it's installing, we have a visitor up in the right-hand corner who will be coming soon. Logos is a fantastic piece of software. There's the downloaded— the cat we almost downloaded. Logos is a fantastic piece of software, as you would know. You if you're using it, but it's a niche area. And so often things like this, tablets like this, and different kinds of tech that are helpful for Logos don't get reviewed very often. So I thought I would make this review and walk us through some of the questions you might have about e-ink, about the tablet. And as I'm installing Logos in the background here and getting my library up and running, The main thing that I love about e-ink— I've been a longtime e-ink user for reading books— is I can read for hours on e-ink, but with tablets or anything shining in my eyes like a computer screen, I get red eyes and get very sore and can't read very late into the evening. Well, when I got this tablet— so here I am trying to figure out what if I wanted to rotate tablet the other way. So I found the auto-rotate button on there, and then this is the first time this tablet's ever been rotated, so it took a moment, but now it does it smoothly every time. And I was very impressed with how quickly the BOOX Color Note 3 did pretty much everything. There's 3 columns, and you can see I still haven't adjusted the margins. That happens a bit later in the video. So yes, the e-ink is just so good for my eyes, and I was planning on just, uh, setting this up and then going to bed, and I ended up getting so involved in using it for what I meant it to be used for. I just started studying the Bible, captivated me. Now here's some highlighting I've done, and I can't see it on the e-ink tablet because highlighting is very much a color-based thing. And so I started trying to figure out how to find that to make that color pop. And so the first thing I went to was the backlight. I thought if I turn the backlight up, surely that will make the color pop. But all that really does is it adjusts either white light or a yellow light, and you can balance it, which is really nice. And it comes from the side, so it— the lights shine over the screen almost like a light in the room, and they don't bounce into your eyes. They just catch the edge of the e-ink and light it up. But that didn't really fix it. So there's me dragging over it to highlight it, and then you can see that a different color. But as I was looking for it, I thought, well, maybe it's in the settings of Logos. And so I went in and I, I thought, what if I change it to— that didn't really do anything— sepia. Then I changed it to the, uh, the dark light. And, uh, this is pretty, pretty smarmy. You're gonna like this if you like your dark mode. It looks really good, but it's almost pointless because you don't have light shining in your eyes anyway. And so I actually found— I took it out of dark mode. And I've never used the tablet— I use all my my phone, my computer even in dark mode. But on this tablet, this is the only time I ever had it in dark mode. I went right back into view settings and I took it out of dark mode, not because I couldn't read it, but because I couldn't read it as well. It was just so nice with like looking at a blank piece of paper or a white piece of paper with text on it. Really feels so much like you just have a color book, you know, a real live book in front of you that you're looking at. So I finally found the answer. It's in the settings here. You can pull up from the bottom to bring up a settings bar, but that's really difficult to figure out how to do. Or you can come in here and you can turn on the, the bar across the bottom of the screen. Now that you can see just down at the bottom with some settings things, and when you do that, you can adjust down the 1, 2, 3, 4th button along the bottom there, down in the black bar. You can adjust the— here, I'm going to do it, I think. There you go. You touch that one and you can adjust the contrast settings, then a color boost and all kinds of stuff. It's really funny because it's e-ink. Boosting the color really doesn't do anything, but boosting this contrast really makes a difference. And then, um, that one helps a little, um, but you can see it kind of highlights around the, the dividing lines between the columns, but it doesn't do a lot to the text itself. The top, what the contrast— this one did nothing. Unless the backlight's cranked all the way up, you could just see. And when you're looking at magazine-like print with color pictures, the bottom one there makes a difference. But the main thing that I found that really helps is the contrast. And then now there's the highlight, and you can see. And here's a highlight I've done on, on Logos some time ago, and it's visible just as you're scrolling down because, ah, there's a highlight there. So just raising the contrast was all I had to do, but that was a tablet oriented question, not Logos. So I was just learning the tablet. The very first thing I did when I got the tablet was install Logos and just started playing with it because that's what I wanted it for. That's what I got it for. And so now, yeah, it just pops. Boom! You can see it once you raise the contrast. And you can see I'm just playing with it now so you can see how the contrast is going up and down just up above where I'm adjusting the highlighting. It's a 10.3-inch tablet, so it's a good size. It's a little bit— well, it's not an iPad Pro size, but it's just a little bigger than a standard iPad, which is a 9.7-inch screen. So there you go. That's what highlighting looks like, and it works. Yay! Now let's have a look. This stand I bought with it, it comes from BOOX as well, and it's really cool. You can use it on your lap like I've got it here. There's all the highlighting all working and everything. On the stand. This stand, when I got it, um, I got it with the tablet and I, I had to take off the main head that was on it and put the one for the bigger tablets. But there it is, and, um, it's being photobombed in the back there by the cat that didn't sleep all night, um, because she was out, uh, making the neighbor's house noisy on the roof. So here goes, uh, this is a little, uh, case that comes with it. It's called the magnetic case. And you can fold it a number of ways. That's so cool, isn't it? Folds up, it's magnetic top and bottom, so the case just holds on to the back there. You put it that way, you can stand it up portrait, and you can also roll it up like an iPad cover and just have a little triangle in the back that holds it up as well. So let's have a look here. We load up Logos. What if you wanted to take notes alongside of Logos? I usually have a journal that I write in. But now you can just go up here to the settings, you can go to split screen on the device, and you can load up your notes program. So on one side you put your Logos, and on the other side you put your notes program. And then I just thought I would write a quick entry for you, show you how messy my handwriting is. I had to figure out how to use the notes program. Start a new note and choose the format you want it in. And then I sped up because I'm a slow writer and a messy writer. But it is not difficult at all to write on the tablet. In fact, it feels like paper. It actually makes a shh noise as you're moving across it. You can feel kind of that resistance against the pen. Feels very much like pencil on paper. And if that tactile thing, you know, some artists really like to— for it to feel real.. And it does. So yeah, it's fun and easy. Now here, outdoors, backlight completely off. I just wanted to come out here and show you this because this is what I like to do. I like to go sit in nature here in Australia, sit by the river, sit by the ocean, and get my tablet out. Look how beautiful that is. It's crisp and clear. But while I'm outside, I wanted to show you one of the questions I was wondering, like, what about taking notes in Logos? Well, there's a note that I've written. Earlier. What if I wanted to edit that within Logos? Well, obviously if I'm gonna do that by hand, what's gonna happen here is when I, when I bring up the keyboard to write on there, it brings up my little writing pad in the corner where I've told it to be, but it's over the top of what I want to write. So I move that column over. I like it to be a little writing pad in the corner rather than taking up the whole bottom, but I'll show you how to do that in a minute. So then you go in here and, like, I have messy handwriting and this has understanding, like an interpreter for handwriting, and watch this, watch how messy this is. I sped it up a little bit, but so it's not the cleanest, crispest handwriting, but I was blown away. It never got it wrong. Sometimes it would leave spaces out if I did a second entry, but other than, like, that's messy, right? Now watch what happens over on the note. It pops on there, and up the top of the handwriting thing is it as well there, and it says exactly what I meant to write, right? It didn't look like I wrote that good, but there it was. So now, if I want to get rid of that, you just, just like you would in Logos, you just hold down and highlight it, and then hit that back button, delete. And boom, it's gone. So now, what if I wanted to write a note across the— well, I'll show you here. So, I'm gonna move my Notes tab back across. And then the way the keyboard standard comes up, well, it actually comes up with keys like an iPad does. But I've moved it across to the handwriting thing and I don't think I'll ever go back to the keys because it can read my handwriting. So here's a different note. It pops up in the little notes bar there and it's a little bit high to demonstrate this well, but when you do the across the bottom whole keyboard, it bumps up whatever you're writing on to be above the keyboard. It already happened to be there in this illustration, but you see now that's going across the bottom and it recognizes which of the 3 columns you're writing in and only bumps that column up. And then you can write on there, and again, it just pops exactly what I messy wrote. It fixes it and puts it on there, and you can see it is exactly what I wrote. And then I can go in and highlight it again, um, and delete what I wrote like that. And then when you're done, you put the keyboard away with this little button here. And then in the dark there, you may not be able to see it, there's a done thing in it. Takes it back. So here we are back inside looking at the tablet, and I am— thought, what if I cast it to my screen? Whoa, imagine that for presentations. It's that easy if you have Google Cast. There it is, it just goes straight up to your screen. So in summing, I have to say this is the The perfect tablet, especially for Logos. If you want to grab one, um, use the link below and it helps me a little bit. And, uh, enjoy studying your Bible.