Hi,
does somebody have experience playing online-go on an e-ink tablet like the onyx boox max 2?
Which devices work with online-go.com (or with other popular online go community)?
thank you for your information,
eploft
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I hadn’t experience with eink displays so far.
I tried to play a game on my tolino and it worked unexpectedly well. OGS automatically selects the white board skin. Playing a game worked without problems. The goban looks really nice on eink. As expected everything is a little slow and chatting isn’t much fun.
Here some screenshots from my reader.
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@flovo Uhh… good to know 
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Ive been hesitant to play on my phone, its just too small (and i dont own a tablet). My reader might be great for playing on vacation. Then again … it is linux based 
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Was that a live game you played there?
Yes, it was live. I would recommend to not play blitz, but live is fine.
Huh, I wonder if i could play on my kindle.
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Thank you for sharing!
Which Tolino product do you use?
It’s the Tolino Vision 3 HD.
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Works very well on likebook mars (octacore processor). Get little 4mm half dome pearl beads to use as stones. Use the ogs online go app. Also possible to read smartgo books and solve problems using gitden reader. Of coarse you can replay pro games as well, or amateur ogs games. Overall better experience than playing on computer. A hybrid of a real board and a virtual board
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I made another post about trying to use a Kindle Paperwhite to play OGS, do to the JAva, it was a no go without a jailbreak which I wasn’t looking to pursue.
I ended up getting a large screen BOOX Note 3 and I have OGS running on it quite well. It is quite magical actually to play with no backlit screen, with a stylus. It is absolutely my preferred method of playing go, second only to on a real board. It’s absolutely fast enough to play live games or even blitz.
I’m meaning to make a video and a full review but here is a pic of a game in zen mode.
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It’s been several years now, have your impressions of playing on an e-ink screen changed?
Did you manage to make a video review?
Were you able to try playing not only through the website, but also through apps? If so, which ones work best on e-ink?
In recently got the new Boox Note Air 4C which can also do color.
I’m personally not convinced of playing Go on it. It does work. But it doesn’t look good in my opinion. I didn’t think that “looks” were that important to me when playing Go but I just prefer playing on the computer.
The one graphic that works well is the black/white Kifu graphic shown by some other posters here. But that one is just a little dull to play on.
Any other color-theme-stone combination has looked worse in my opinion. Maybe I just haven’t found the right setup yet. In theory I think playing Go an a tablet-like device should be great.
If anyone has a suggestion for me I’d be happy to hear it.
Do you happen to have a link for me?
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I’ve tried kindle. Their browser has very limited JavaScript support 
Edit: oh this is a necro. To clarify, my Kindle attempt was somewhat recent (some time in 2024)
Made a quick Demo with the Onyx Boox Air on OGS and the Sente App.
This is not a new device but a solid baseline.
I did not optimize the e-ink settings for this demo.
I put timestamps for the interesting parts in the description.
I personally like the experience. Also for quickly reviewing the game with someone it’s perfect.
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I think the two of us probably make up a large part of the group of people on this planet that speak German and have played Go on an Onyx Boox device 
The screen of your older model seems less “eInk-like” than mine. Maybe i could tweak the settings a little. Your device seems to be better suited for displaying Go games than my Boox Note Air 4C.
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