After taking a closer look at Xiaomi's e-paper book, I think this product shows its uniqueness in many aspects, but there are also some areas that need to be improved.
Judging from the appearance design, Xiaomi's appearance of reading more e-paper books is indeed very powerful.
The simple and stylish appearance and just the right color matching make this e-paper book very suitable for use as a reading tool.
Compared with the decent design of the Kindle Youth Edition, Xiaomi reads more e-paper books and is more fashionable, in line with modern aesthetic concepts.
The back cover is coated with a black skin-like texture, which feels very good to the touch, and is more delicate than the Kindle Youth Edition.
However, the body of Xiaomi's more e-paper book is not the rounded design of the Kindle Youth Edition, although there are also curved transitions on both sides, but overall it is more square.
There are also a lot of highlights when it comes to software.
It supports WPS and PDF reflow, which is a very useful feature for users who like to read documents and books.
Common e-book formats such as txt and epub can also be supported.
Xiaomi Duokan e-paper book has the characteristics of uniform backlight and cold tone, and the overall performance is in line with expectations.
In particular, the backlight brightness uniformity is as high as 94%, which is quite an excellent result.
Also, it's doing a good job in terms of user interaction.
The interface is simple, there are no ads, and the startup response speed is fast.
The power button is in the upper right corner, which should be a little more accustomed to it for most Chinese people than at the bottom.
It also provides a trial reading function, where users can directly try to understand the general content of the book, the author's writing, writing style, etc., so as to decide whether to buy it.
Deficiencies
Although the system is Android, users can install apps through adb commands, but this can be complicated for many users, and it is not convenient to use.
While there are a wealth of font and typography options, I think there are more options to better optimize the typography and provide more customization options to better meet the needs of different users.
In summary,Although there are some shortcomings, overall, I think Xiaomi Duokan E-paper Book is still a product worth recommending. It has a sleek design, excellent hardware performance, rich software features, and a good reading experience.
If you are a user who likes to read books and documents, and at the same time budget is at the price of a few hundred yuan, then Xiaomi will be a good choice to read more e-paper books.
The customizability and extensibility of the software has the following specific impacts on its user experience:
The product's Android system allows users to install applications using adb commands through developer mode, which greatly compensates for the product's software shortcomings, and even has an advantage over the Kindle. This gives users more choice and customization capabilities.
The built-in multi-view reading system provides a wealth of setting options, such as font size, font and typography, which allow users to personalize the settings according to their reading habits and preferences.
It also supports WPS and PDF rearrangement, and PDF rearrangement performs very well on Xiaomi Duokan e-paper books, which provides users with more reading format options and is convenient for users to read different types of e-books.
Finally, the product also has the characteristics of uniform backlight, cold tones, overall backlight brightness uniformity of up to 94%, and light leakage at the bottom is almost inevitable, but the overall performance is not bad. The product also adds a one-page one-brush function, which solves the problem of ghosting when reading comics.
Compared with other similar products, it has certain innovations in interface design and user interaction.
It adopts a simple interface design, the system interface is very simple, and the bottom is "bookshelf|."Book City|Classification|Personal", compared with other similar products, reduce the interference of advertising and push information, and users can focus more on reading itself.
It provides a wealth of font and typography setting options, including Founder Imitation Song, Founder Lanting Black, Founder Small Label Song, etc., typography provides font size, spacing and margin settings, users can personalize the settings according to their reading habits and preferences.
Users can directly log in to Duokan Reading through Xiaomi or WeChat accounts, and all purchase records and reading progress can be synchronized in real time, so you can get almost a complete Duokan reading experience.