TCL is mainly known for its excellent value TVs, but it also has an interesting line of Nxtpaper tablets with matte displays that can mimic color and monochrome E Ink e-readers fairly convincingly. The 1.08-pound Nxtpaper 11 Plus has an 11.5-inch, 120Hz display with Nxtpaper 4.0 display technology. (The base display technology is LCD.) I was pleasantly surprised by that display, which has a 2,200x1,440-pixel resolution at 229 pixels per inch. It's not super sharp or super bright, but the colors appear accurate, and it has something that TCL calls "3-in-1 VersaView Modes."
Yes, the key selling point of the Nxtpaper 11 Plus compared to other Android tablets is the ability to switch between three display modes. Regular mode is the brightest and makes the tablet look most like your typical tablet with an LCD screen, though this isn't the brightest due to the matte layer on the screen. Ink Paper mode turns the screen into a Kindle-like monochrome E Ink display "for extended reading sessions and note-taking." And Color Paper mode mutes the screen to mimic color E Ink tablets like the Kindle Scribe Colorsoft and ReMarkable Paper Pro, offering "soft, low-saturation colors ideal for reading comics or magazines." Both Paper modes are designed to reduce eye strain, and there's also some blue-light filtering (the Paper modes are not E Ink technology). Note that those large color E Ink models cost over $600.
Where it does excel is for reading indoors, and it's a budget-friendly tablet for taking notes and drawing. I should point out that while the matte screen does help reduce glare in brightly lit environments, unlike E Ink e-readers, the display still has trouble with direct sunlight. In other words, don't expect to take this tablet to the beach and have the same glare-free, non-washed-out viewing experience that you get with an E Ink e-reader in direct sunlight. But there's still a lot to like about it for the price.