AiPaper Mini 8.2’’ AI E Ink Tablet with Adjustable Light, 292PPI Electronic Notebook with Pen, Portable 230g, 128GB Storage, Octa-Core 2.0 GHz Processor Note Taking Device

I picked this up to replace a Kindle Scribe for note taking at work. As a digital notepad, it's great. The writing feels good, there's a variety of templates (and more can be added). There's handwriting & shape recognition, both of which work nicely for me.The UI is laid out pretty well, though I don't use the "Meeting", "Picking", or "Learning" sections. Within the programs I haven't had any problems finding the things I'm looking for, and the overall functionality is pretty good for a new product in this category.It can run Android apps. I've side loaded a few, but don't run them often. KOReader for ebooks is the additional one I use the most, and this works quite well for me.Battery life is ok. It's not as good as my Kindle Scribe or SuperNote Nomad, but much better than the Mobiscribe Wave. If keeping the wifi & front light off, it's noticeably better, but I still only need to charge it every few days at most.The build quality is surprisingly good. The device is thin, light, and feels quite solid. There's a power button on top right, a USB C port on the bottom left, and magnets along the left & right edges. The left edge attaches to a thin case, and the stylus can attach to the right.I'm still undecided on the stylus. It feels nice enough, has an eraser on the end, and a button (which also acts as an eraser). But the tips feel a bit weak, and are a little different than standard EMR nibs, so can't be swapped with those. It does come with several extra tips.The cover feels cheap to me. It's thin; the magnetic attachment doesn't feel very secure, and I've had some minor fraying along the edges & pen loop. I'd like to find a better cover at some point.In my headline I mentioned issues. Other than those already mentioned earlier, I have one recurring problem that is a little concerning, and a few annoyances. The problem is ghosting. At several points I've had it start ghosting very heavily, and the screen notably darkens with use when this is happening. Refreshing doesn't clear it up for long. Of note though, this doesn't occur constantly. It mostly seems to happen around 2-3 PM each day, after I've had it on & in use for 8-9 hours. If I just keep using it, the problem will clear up after 30-45 minutes, then it's fine again.Annoyances: I wish I could disable the AI button. I don't really use AI, and keep hitting this by accident. (There is a software disable buttons feature, but this affects all the buttons, not just the AI one). The other is software updates. This has received a few, but installing them is slow. The last took over an hour to download & install, which was quite inconvenient given the small size of the update. I'd like this to be optimized for better performance.I'm content with this overall. It's a little pricey, but I like the device, and it's been much more usable for note taking than the Kindle Scribe was.

I love this little e-notetaker - Overall great buildIt took me a minute to fully comprehend the power it has and I still am learning new things everyday but once you understand it the adaptability is amazing.Compared to the remarkable it is a way better price point and if you want to switch to reading you can up the brightness which neither remarkable or the fullsize version of this have so the readability is great in dark places.The case it comes with repels water and when the brightness is turned down the battery life is impeccable.I don't utilize this much yet but you can export your notes as a pdf and send it to other devices which will then pull the color, otherwise this is a grey scale screen which is great when you are focused on the content.The case has a few additional tips in it, (I circled in red where they are on the second picture) - These came in handy when I was out of the office and dropped it but I wish it came with a smaller pen if necessary - you can probably buy that second hand.Sometimes where the stylus is hitting isn't where the line draws, but usually thats due to uneven surface, which that could be solved - but that's if I'm being nit picky.

There are a lot of positive reviews of this tablet, and I am happy for those people who are pleased with their purchase, but my experience has been different. It is an OK tablet, but it had some serious issues for me. I apologize for the length of this review but there is a lot to say.There are no hardware or software volume buttons to control the sound, and that seems like a big issue to me for a tablet that says it does text-to-speech. It relies on the volume controls on your BT earbuds but if your earbuds to not have those controls you are out of luck. The default sound output on my tablet is almost 0 and my fairly expensive Samsung earbuds do not have volume controls so this is a big issue for me. In addition the Android tablet does not support the Samsung earbud app for my earbuds so I can not use that to control the volume either.There is no automatic rotate functionality and I have not found any way to rotate the display manually either so if you want to read a book in landscape mode, good luck to you.There is no way to control the thickness of the displayed characters like you can do on some of the Boox eReaders and so your only control over the display is the contrast. Turn that up to make the characters more visible and you end up making the document or book nearly unreadable. and certainly hard on the eyes.The tablet will not do split screen. For a fairly expensive tablet in this day and age that seems unreasonable. Even my phone does split screen.This has an 8.2 inch screen and that is larger than most eReaders, but if you need to read documents having graphs and/or writing you have to choose between too light to read and too contrasty to read. I am a retired engineer and often want to read books with graphs and writing and this is just not good for that.You can remove the tablet from the case to make it lighter for one-handed use, but the side margins are so small that I found my fingers touching the screen and thus having the pages change without warning. The only way I could avoid this issue was to use the case. That works but defeats the idea of trying to use it as light as possible.The tablet comes with a case and that is helpful, but the hinge on the case is simply fabric and it feels as though if will break if used too often. It also has a loop for holding the pen, which is also included, but the loop is also fabric and also feels like continued use will cause it to fail.The battery seems a bit small for the tablet and simple use for a couple of hours dropped the power from 100% to 75-80% which seems like a big drop to me for an e-ink tablet.While the included pen works very well I have found that using my fingers to control the UI is often a bit of a challenge as the screen sometimes just will not respond to my fingers and I need to get the pen to do what I want to do.It is not all bad. The 8.2 inch screen size is too small for technical documents but excellent for regular books. The default eReader (ReadEra) allows you to control the brightness of the screen by swiping up on the left side of the screen and that is very helpful. The UI is simple to use and well organized and once you read through the user guide you will find the hidden functionality to access and control the apps. The Task Manager is easy to call to dismiss apps once you find the location (I really needed to glance through the manual to find some of this stuff as it is not obvious). The Android Play Store is not pre-installed but is easy to set up once you find out how to do it. The e-ink display looks great in direct sun and the front light does a great job of making the screen readable in the dark. The pen does a good job of writing and erasing seems easy. After the Android Play Store is installed you can install most, but not all, apps as some apps tell you that the device will not support them. One of those is the Samsung Buds2 Pro Manager which informed me that the tablet does not support the app and so I can not control my earbuds with the app and can not control the volume because the earbuds do not have a volume adjustment.This is a very nice $250-$300 e-ink tablet, but at $400+ seems overpriced to me for what it offers and for the issues I found. I am considering returning it to Amazon and getting a larger 10 inch device, probably a Boox, because of the reading issues I have with technical documents but if you only want to read regular text books this device is just fine.