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

The AI Paper Mini is a solid choice for those who need a compact e-ink tablet for note-taking, reading, and light productivity tasks. The Viwoods build quality is excellent, and the writing experience is smooth with minimal lag. The device is lightweight, making it easy to carry around. The note-taking functionality is intuitive, and the AI features add some extra convenience, especially for organizing thoughts and converting handwriting to text. However, where the device falls short is in speed. Navigating menus and loading large PDFs can feel sluggish at times, and a broader view of the documents, which might be a dealbreaker for users who need a snappier response or big-size documents. . The organization of this document is amazing, making it easy to follow and understand. The structure flows logically, ensuring that key points are clear and well-presented. By the way, I’m using Otter for voice transcription on this tablet, and it runs amazingly smoothly with some limitations but still great! Definitely a great addition if you need reliable speech-to-text. Overall, if you’re looking for a portable e-ink device for reading and jotting down quick notes, or organizing minutes of meetings, the AI Paper Mini does a great job. But if speed and view of large documents is a priority, you may want to consider a more powerful and bigger model. For sure more updates coming in the future for make this device better.

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.