Despite the growing influence of E-Ink, there is one comment some folks insisting of leaving, that appears again and again on these kind of reviews, usually from someone who’s stumbled onto one of my E-Ink videos, probably while trying to find a review of an iPad, and that comment is this: “Just use a tablet.”

Amazon’s Kindle Scribe and Boox tablets are well-known in the e-reader and note-taking market. Even though they share similar hardware, such as touchscreens that support stylus input, they differ significantly in functionality regarding how users of one of these devices might digitally write on the pages of their books.