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There have been a lot of new e-ink tablets released recently, so it's time for a new top 10 e-ink tablets.
Kit Betts-Masters ranks the best e-ink tablets of 2026, from the Boox Pen Star and reMarkable Paper Pro to the Kindle Scribe Color and Supernote Manta, weighing screens, pens, and software.
Key Takeaways
- There is no single best e-ink tablet; the right choice depends on whether the priority is reading, note-taking, drawing, or productivity.
- Color e-ink has improved considerably but still shows drawbacks such as yellowing and ghosting.
- Software quality and organization often matter as much as hardware for day-to-day use.
- Pen accuracy and handwriting experience are key differentiators among note-taking devices.
What the video covers
- Kit Betts-Masters presents a new top 10 list of e-ink tablets, prompted by the many new releases of recent months.
- He admits viewers often feel more confused after his rankings, a choice fatigue he acknowledges in his own videos.
- Ranking runs from number 10 (a purist, simple e-ink device) up to number 1, with each entry discussed for screen, pen, and software.
- Color e-ink is discussed as a standout: the rendering of color is praised, though yellow ghosting over time is criticized as uglier than black-and-white ghosting.
- Several tablets are praised for pen accuracy and handwriting feel, while EMR pen support is treated as a notable differentiator.
- Software is a recurring criticism: the reviewer finds several Android-based interfaces poorly organized, with confusing separate tabs for installed apps.
- The VOYO iPaper is highlighted as a fan favorite, with a strong daily app and productivity tools.
- The Kindle Scribe Color Soft is recommended for reading and as a color e-ink reader, while the Tab XC is recommended for those wanting color documents, apps, or typing.
- The Supernote Manta is praised as a focus notebook and sketchbook, and the Pen Star is described as a purist choice that is excellent for drawing.
- The video closes with membership promotion and an invitation for viewers to share their opinions in the comments.
Chapters
- 00:00Introduction and choice fatigue
- 02:00Color e-ink and Kaleido screens
- 05:00Boox Pen Star and reMarkable Paper Pro
- 07:00VOYO iPaper and software critiques
- 10:00Mid-ranking tablets and integrations
- 13:00Kindle Scribe Color Soft and Tab XC
- 16:00Supernote Manta and top picks
- 20:00Membership promotion and closing thoughts
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Now, I must say that one comment that I had recently on one of my top 10s was that, "I just watched your top 10 video and I still need to do a whole lot of research to make up my mind." So,
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Now, I must say that one comment that I had recently on one of my top 10s was that, "I just watched your top 10 video and I still need to do a whole lot of research to make up my mind."
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I think I kind of add to a little bit of like, "Well, I'm I'm not I've got lots more information. I've found out lots more about the e-ink tablets, but actually I'm less sure of what I wanted than maybe when I started the video."
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So, there's a kind of choice fatigue that kind of creeps into my videos, I think.
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flawed, it's what's letting it [music] down. But, this actually is one of the very best rendering detail on the color e-ink. I do find that is an absolute standout feature of it. The way that color is represented on here is
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I think I kind of add to a little bit of like, "Well, I'm... I've got lots more information. I've found out lots more about the e-ink tablets, but actually I'm less sure of what I wanted than maybe when I started the video."
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it, I said, "Why is it only showing me so many apps?" And the reason for that is because of the separate tab called installed apps. And so, that begs the question, why does it need to be a separate tab for installed apps? So, I
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So, I'm going to try my best to really distill it down now. That's my hope, anyway.
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do think just for reading, just for Kaleido with very little fast if all you want to do [snorts] is to enjoy your books especially if you want to enjoy large screen graphic novels.
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Here is the Pen Star e-note Pro and I really like this tablet.
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organized and it could be so much better. They could do so much better with their integrations. They could do so much better with the power of Amazon.
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It's got an excellent pen and screen.
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Great for drawing. Really like this tablet. Great battery life. Great screen all round. The remarkable paper pro is at number [music] eight. So here's the remarkable paper pro. And somebody asked about [music] a keyboard case and this certainly has
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Its software is a little bit flawed, it's what's letting it down.
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that's your lot. But what a wonderful tablet. What a wonderful design. Accessories are beautiful for it. The pen although it's not EMR is really accurate and gives you a wonderful handwriting experience. The gallery 3 although you could consider that to be
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But, this actually is one of the very best rendering detail on the color e-ink.
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nuisance and I find the gallery screen does get a little bit yellow over time and gives you kind of yellow ghosting which I think is actually uglier than the black and white ghosting that you get on black and white e-ink screens.
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I do find that is an absolute standout feature of it.
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And uh this is a really excellent mono screen. It's a really excellent black and white screen. It's Android, so if you know your way around Android, you know your way around here. You can use the apps that you know, for example,
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The way that color is represented on here is brilliant, and yeah, this was my point here, how good the e-ink can look, at least when the image is stationary.
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good pen experience and great screen feel on here as well, and you can get some really accurate handwriting there.
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There we go, we've got a really accurate stylus pen with lots of pressure levels.
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10.3 lineup, which is a strength of the Go 10.3 lineup. So, that's number [music] seven. Number six, [snorts] the VOYO iPaper. Really lots of people's favorite here. So, the VOYO iPaper, powerful e-ink tablet, bit of a tour de
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designed thin e-ink tablets here. It's just a really excellent thing. It's a really simple, easy-to-use note-taking first, but with some real productivity tools on there as well. I think that the daily app on it is absolutely brilliant.
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On my first review of it, I said, "Why is it only showing me so many apps?"
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Looking at this screen and thinking, is the front light on? And then remembering it doesn't have a front light because that is just bright, white, high contrast screen. Yeah, it's it's excellent. It's incredibly light. Out of all of them that I've been using just so
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And the reason for that is because of the separate tab called installed apps.
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think that you're buying this even though it's an AI tablet, you're buying it purely for the AI features. Yeah, I really enjoy this tablet. The pen tools I really enjoy. You've got all the apps you could need as well. Full Google Play
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And so, that begs the question, why does it need to be a separate tab for installed apps?
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So, I think that's one thing that sort of let it down in use, but brilliant tablet there. reMarkable paper pure, and I was so [music] impressed with this when I opened it after not using it for a while and it
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So, I think the Pen Star is what it says on the box, really.
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[music] Absolutely brilliant tablet. It is a real [snorts] purist choice. It's got a lot of the positives that I talked about when I talked about the Pro.
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It is an excellent pen and screen experience there.
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in to a life and you won't have to learn a thing, it'll just kind of work.
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So, that's number 10.
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is. It's just beautiful. [music] Really elegant design here from Books. It's just [music] Yeah, it's got a little bit of everything. I think you need to know that you want [clears throat] this size, but if you do know that you want this size, then
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At number nine, it's the Kindle Scribe Color Soft.
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meeting, you look like you mean business. This is absolutely brilliant. You got You got all this space to lay out your thoughts and infinite scroll if you need to as well. Yeah, absolutely brilliant. This is the one if you want
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It's a beautiful color e-ink reader.
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that's partly why it just doesn't quite fit into your life well enough that makes it the kind of number one. The Tab XC, if you want color documents or if you want apps or if you want to type, you can
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I really do think just for reading, just for Kaleido with very little fast, if all you want to do is to enjoy your books, especially if you want to enjoy large screen graphic novels.
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just because As soon as you load up the workspace here, you'll notice that icons and different user experience interfaces just look better on a color e-ink screen. And then you've still got [music] the same thing as before.
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You are on to a winner with this one.
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Wonderfully thin 13.3-in e-ink tablet for note-taking on. I have a healing shield screen protector on there, which gives it a textured grippy feel. You have got all the space to write on, but you have lost the EMR pen. But, you [clears throat] do have
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You really are.
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the Supernote Mantra, which for a long time has been the absolute best absolute number one a focus notebook and a focus sketchbook. I really do love this thing.
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But as soon as you want to go outside of this, then you are going to the work space at your own kind of peril, because it isn't very well organized, and it could be so much better.
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Mobius is important. Not only does it feel softer, but it's also more durable as well. Really excellent for that focus. And now, with their plugins, with the ink hub, it's even [music] more powerful. It's It's a really great device. And then, I've just
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They could do so much better with their integrations.
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[music] be an Android tablet when you want to dive into AI workflows. It can be a typing [music] station. It can be a sketchbook. It can be a Kindle. It can be whatever reading app you want to use.
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They could do so much better with the power of Amazon.
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I still don't think that's where you want to be, but I mean, yeah, you've even got this incredibly smooth ink mode here.
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They could do so much better than this, but you've got that 140 in my pen great thing here as well.
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It's the closest one for you like the features of all of them. I don't think there's a feature that any of them have that the Note Air 6C can't do at least somewhat as good. Let me know what you
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Great for reading.
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And I'm Yeah, I'm sticking to that. So, definitely let me know. I've got a feeling that's going to be at least somewhat controversial I've just said there, but just remember [music] this is all in fun and that I'm thoroughly aware
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Great for drawing.
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amazing tablets, more than 10 actually, that I would thoroughly recommend to somebody. If they were to give me a specific [music] use case, I would recommend one of those 10 for specific reasons. But if you're not sure and if
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Really like this tablet.
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[music] It's going to let you do all of the key things that you would want to do on any Ink tablet. This was actually filmed in a members live stream, which I really enjoy because it's [music] just fewer
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Great battery life.
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So, if you're interested in memberships, [music] then do check out the perks via the join button below. And at all tiers, you get early release of my videos whenever they're ready, then they're there for members. And you get to be
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Great screen all round.
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how we've gone from a list where I was struggling to pull together 10 that I would really in any way recommend to now that being far more than 10 that are absolutely excellent. The world of e-ink tablets really has come quite far since I've
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The reMarkable Paper Pro is at number eight.
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Supernote Mantra if you're in it for the writing [music] and get the Paper Pure if you're in it for simplicity. Those are the three at this size. So, the Note Air 6C all work.
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So here's the reMarkable Paper Pro.
Topics:e-ink tabletbest e-ink tablets 2026e-readerreMarkable Paper ProKindle ScribeBooxSupernoteVOYO iPapercolor e-inknote-taking tablet
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