r/viwoods

I need someone's help, who has used these two devices. I'm stuck between the viwood's and the boox. The boox had the front light but the viwood's has been really calling to me with it's beautiful 1300 display. It just doesn't have a front light and the software on the boox is more refined from what I can tell.

I've had boox devices before also, so I'm familiar with their ecosystem...

But I want someone's take who's had both of these devices. I need some insight. What feels better for writing/reading. I'd be doing a lot of both of those.

Dear u/viwoods team, I tried to help you with the survey, but cannot finish answering the questions. Q4 & Q5 are covered by a request to join the mailing list. I could not find a way to see those questions. :-)

Anyway I am working professional and would love to have templates for calendar and habit tracking.

I also would really like to see an update to your PDF and epub reading app to allow adding comments to the documents as a text snippets as well as to have other offline dictionaries.

So I’m currently trialing a Remarkable Paper Pro Move and have an AIPaper Mini coming today. One of the things I’ve found it hard to find info on is what level of organization tools there are on the Mini. The Remarkable has the form factor I like, plus color, but the battery life and lack of basically any tools whatsoever (by design) has left me wanting more.

Ideally I’d get something at least halfway to the Supernote lineup, but not sure how close it gets.

Also - unrelated - does anyone have a recommended list of Play Store apps that work well with the Viwoods devices? Thanks!

So I finally got my AI reader and I did the setup and all is well.

I am reading with the light set to zero (completely off)

However there is an app (like kindle for Arabic books) that forces the light on once I open a book. It switches off again in the app menu or when I am browsing my list of books to read etc.

But as soon as I open a book it forces light on (and it remains off in settings bar)

Anyone faces a similar issue and have an advice?

I would like to control the light only from the Viwoods.

PS it was off in the apps book view till I tested dragging in the app's light on!

This is something I've been thinking about for a while and wanted to discuss here.

The common answer when you ask why E Ink tablets are expensive:

"Niche market. Innovation costs money. Premium product."

Partially true. But there's a bigger, less-discussed structural reason most people don't know about.

E Ink Holdings has a near-monopoly.

E Ink Holdings (a Taiwanese company) owns 2,000+ patents on electrophoretic display technology. Every manufacturer — Kindle, reMarkable, Kobo, Onyx Boox — pays royalties to E Ink on every device sold.

Those royalties significantly inflate the price you pay.

Here is the Rough breakdown (estimated):-

Current situation:-

· E Ink panel (with heavy royalties): ~$60-100 (₹5K-8K)

· Other hardware: ~$80-100 (₹6.5K-8K)

· Manufacturing: ~$20 (₹1.6K)

· Company margin: ~$40-60 (₹3K-5K)

· Final price: $300-500 (₹25K-42K)

If royalties dropped to standard industry rates (3-5%):-

· E Ink panel (reduced): ~$30-40 (₹2.5K-3.3K)

· Everything else: same

· Estimated final price: $150-200 (₹12K-16K)

That gap is paid by you, the consumer, every time.

Is there an alternative?

Yes — DES (Display Electronic Slurry), developed by Good Display (China). A fundamentally different e-paper approach that doesn't rely on E Ink's microcapsule method.

It could potentially challenge this monopoly. But it's been in development for 8+ years and still isn't mainstream — because navigating 2,000+ patents is slow, expensive, and legally risky even for well-funded companies.

What I'm not saying:-

· E Ink is doing anything illegal (they're not)

· Patents are inherently bad (they're not)

What I am saying:-

· A significant portion of what you pay goes to royalties, not hardware

· Limited competition = limited price pressure

· Most consumers don't know this structure exists

Questions for discussion:-

· Did you know about E Ink's patent situation before this?

· Would you buy an E Ink tablet at $150-200 (₹12K-16K)?

· Do you think DES will eventually challenge this?

Happy to discuss further.

Looking to get an LED clip on light, prefably USB-C. Any reccomendations?

I recently picked up the Viwoods AiPaper reader, but I have to admit I am struggling with the screen quality, especially when comparing it to my older Kobo Libra 2.

Even though the Libra 2 is a few years old now, the visual clarity feels significantly better. On the Kobo, the blacks are deep and the background is a crisp, clean white. In comparison, the Viwoods screen looks somewhat dull and greyish, as if there is a permanent layer of haze over the text.

The situation gets even worse when switching to dark mode. While the Kobo handles inverted colors beautifully with sharp white text on a solid black background, the Viwoods looks washed out. The "black" areas feel more like a dark charcoal, and the ghosting becomes much more prominent, making it almost unusable for night reading.

I understand that the Viwoods is a different beast, but I expected the reading experience to be at least on par with an older mid-range e-reader. The Carta 1200 tech on the Kobo still seems to hold the crown for pure legibility.

Has anyone else made a similar jump from a dedicated e-reader to the Viwoods? Did you manage to find any software or contrast settings that help bridge the gap, or is this just an inherent limitation of the hardware?

I really wanted to love this device for my workflow, but the step back in screen crispness is hard to ignore.

Edit : removed bad Info about the stylus, aipaper reader doesn't support it.

Hi! I love the aipaper mini, but im too into the boox ecosystem to justify keeping it.

Includes allstate accident warranty until October.

Cover has some wear. device is perfect otherwise. includes the w2 :)

All,
The AI Paper Mini seems to be getting a little long in the tooth. Any idea when a new version might be coming out?

Also, I thought they were soon going to release notes syncing between devices. I’m not sure I’ve seen that yet. I have the AI paper and I’m thinking about getting the mini, but don’t want to buy an old product and I want to make sure I can sync content between devices.

Does anyone else find it frustrating that swiping down on the Viwoods AiPaper just refreshes the screen instead of showing notifications? I've been looking for a workaround for a while and I found a small overlay app that adds a notification panel.

Sharing it here in case it's useful to others: github.com/magcrider/inkBell

Has anyone found other ways to handle this? If anyone tests it, would love to know how it runs on different firmware versions.

Is it possible to change the number of displayed items per page in the Daily ToDo List? It is so little practical to have only 6 items displayed in huge line spacings...

I’m considering adding a SIM card to my ViWoods AiPaper reader. I don’t often need access away from my WiFi, but it would be nice to have it when I do need it. This would mainly be for downloading ebooks and occasionally audiobooks; don’t do email, Facebook, or consume news or videos on the device. It’s strictly a Reader. (Or Listener.) The audiobooks would probably gobble up usage, but I could probably budget that. I’m curious if anyone has experience using a low cost or pay-as-you-go data-only plan. I’m in the US which would obviously affect the answer.

I attempted something new to me today.

I converted audio to text so that I could then copy and transfer that text to an email. That didn't work. The only thing I can do with the converted text is move it on the same page, or after some machinations I was able to copy and paste to another Paper.

Once we have copied that Text ..... we should be able to paste it anywhere.

Has anyone else tried this? Have I missed a step somewhere along the line?

Also, can somone explain to me what "Appropriate Post Flair" means?

I really like the palma 2 pro but the screen is just far too fragile to be an everyday carry around device. Anyone have experience with both? I’ve seen reviews that mention Kindle crashing a lot is that still an issue? Would mostly be using Kindle, Readwise Reader, and some news paper apps

Not sure where I should best post a feature request. Maybe via the ViWoods Email as well?

I would very much like to see a hard battery charge limit to 80% or fully customizable.

Benefits: Preserves battery life in the long run and makes doing so easier as the user can keep the phone plugged in.

Take Samsungs charge limiter as an example. It will limit the charge to a user defined setting and will keep the battery at this level permanently while it is plugged in.
However, a simple 80% limit would already be enough for 99.99% of people.

Morning Everyone

I have just started using the AI Paper Mini and when I go to use the handwriting to text features it just seems to not read my handwriting.

If I put it through the Chat GPT integration it’s fine but when it’s just the standard text entry box and I’m writing on the screen it’s really bad, am I doing it wrong or is there something I need to change in the settings?

I know that I can change it in the AI app, but I can not change it in the Learning app.
Runs on GPT-4o only and its veeery slow at even the most basic translation tasks.