Discover the BOOX Palma: A Reader Shaped Like Your Phone

Most e-readers ask you to change your habits. They want a spot in your bag, a bedside table, a dedicated reading hour. The BOOX Palma asks for none of that. It is shaped like a phone, sized like a phone, and pocketed like a phone, so it goes wherever your phone already goes. The difference is what happens when you pull it out: instead of a feed, you get a page.

Why the phone shape works

The best reading device is the one you actually have with you. Bigger e-readers are wonderful at home, but they rarely ride along to the bus stop, the school pickup line, or the queue at the passport office. The Palma 2 measures roughly the same as a modern phone and weighs about 170 grams, which means it disappears into a jacket pocket and you stop thinking about whether to bring it.

That constant availability changes behaviour. Every small gap in the day that used to go to scrolling becomes two or three pages of an actual book. We wrote about this effect in our post on breaking the scrolling habit, and the Palma is the device that makes the swap nearly effortless.

A proper reading screen, not a shrunken tablet

The Palma 2 uses a 6.13 inch E Ink Carta screen at 300 ppi, so text looks like print rather than pixels. Because the screen is reflective, it stays perfectly readable in direct sunlight and gentle on the eyes at night. Physical volume buttons double as page-turn buttons, which sounds minor until you are reading one-handed on a crowded train.

Under the surface it is a capable little Android device: an 8-core processor, 128GB of storage, a microSD slot for even more, and a fingerprint reader built into the power button. There is even a 16MP rear camera, handy for scanning documents on the go.

BOOX 6.13" Palma 2 - Black$349.99

Because it runs Android, the Palma is not locked to one bookstore. Kindle, Kobo, Libby for your public library, RSS readers, and read-later apps all install normally. Your existing library comes with you.

BOOX 6.13" Palma 2 - White$349.99

Palma 2 or Palma 2 Pro?

The Palma family now has two members, and the choice comes down to what you read. The Palma 2 is the classic monochrome reader: crisp black-and-white text, ideal for novels, non-fiction, and articles.

The Palma 2 Pro steps up to a Kaleido 3 colour E Ink screen, more memory, a newer version of Android, and a SIM card slot for mobile data, so it can stay connected away from Wi-Fi. If your reading includes comics, magazines, highlighted documents, or you simply want colour covers in your library, the Pro is worth a serious look.

BOOX 6.13" Palma 2 Pro - Black$531.99

We put the two side by side in our Palma 2 vs Palma 2 Pro comparison, including where the colour screen helps and where the standard model is all you need.

Who the Palma is for

In the showroom, three kinds of readers gravitate to the Palma. Commuters, because it lives in a pocket and battery lasts through many days of reading. Parents, because it is always at hand during the in-between moments of the day. And recovering doomscrollers, because it keeps the phone shape while quietly removing everything that made the phone hard to put down.

If you mostly read at a desk or annotate large PDFs, a bigger device such as a Go 7 or a 10.3 inch tablet will serve you better. But for reading woven into daily life, the Palma is the most natural fit BOOX makes.

See it in person

Photos do not capture how paper-like this screen looks. Drop by our Oakville showroom and hold a Palma next to your phone, or order online with free shipping across Canada and 30-day returns on new devices.