Onyx Boox has finally released their massive 4.0 software update for the all of their current generation e-readers and e-notes, but also some older models too. The new firmware is available now for the Go 10.3, Go Color 7, Go 6, Note Max, Note Air4 C, Note Air3, Note Air3 C, Note Air2 Plus, Note Air2, Note 5, Tab X, Tab Ultra C Pro, Tab Ultra C, Tab Ultra, Tab Mini C, Page, Poke4 Lite, Poke5, Poke5 Lite, Palma 2, Palma, Nova Air2, Nova Air C, Max Lumi 2 and Leaf2.
Library and Neoreader has received the bulk of the updates. They have added Customizable Reading Themes, easily customize your own reading themes by adjusting font, margin, spacing, and background color. Apply your favorite theme to any reflowable document with just one tap, saving time on repetitive setup. They also optimized OCR function, OCR now works in the background while you read PDFs, you can continue turning pages, annotating, and highlighting seamlessly without any wait.
Onyx Boox does not host firmware updates or downloads from their site anymore. This will prevent users from downloading the update and sideloading it. Instead, it might take a week or two for it to become available on whatever Onyx Boox product you have.
Full Change log
System
- Improved overall system UI interfaces, stay minimal, and more unified.
- Improved operation feedback prompts make the screen-touching experience more intuitive and accurate.
- Added an option to enable/ disable full refresh when back to the home screen, you can find it in [Settings > Display > Full Refresh When Back to Home Screen > On/ Off].
Library & NeoReader
- Added the ability to customize the top function bar in the Library. You can select and re-order those functions in [Library Settings > Library List Settings].
- Added the Library View switch button in the lower right corner of the Library, you can switch between the View modes with just one click.
- Added Customizable Reading Themes, easily customize your own reading themes by adjusting font, margin, spacing, and background color. Apply your favorite theme to any reflowable document with just one tap, saving time on repetitive setup.
- Added a more intuitive reading progress percentage badge on the document cover. Removed the document reading progress bar.
- Support independent settings for titles, body text fonts, and supplementary fonts of reflowable documents.
- Optimized OCR function, OCR now works in the background while you read PDFs, you can continue turning pages, annotating, and highlighting seamlessly without any wait.
- Optimized word lookup experience, you can prioritize Word Lookup or Translation(Selection) in [Neoreader > Settings > Dictionary Settings].
- Optimized the display of traditional/Japanese symbols.
- Adjusted the [Refresh] entry of Neoreader to the first-level bottom menu for easier refresh mode customization.
- Adjusted the Google Drive related permissions.
Notes – (Available on models that have note-taking capabilities)
- Improved the Notebook creation experience. You can import PDF, CAJ, EPUB, MOBI, JPEG, JPG, PNG, and TXT from local storage to create a notebook, and all the index hyperlinks will be kept and interactive.
- Improved the Add Page experience.
- Improved the Marker display. When using the marker to highlight, the layering is optimized for clearer contrast.
Other Improvements]
- Fixed some known issues and improved system stability
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