The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader

I’ve been looking at these for a while, hoping the custom firmwares for it will become more popular, as I was considering getting this for my six-year-old.

The disabled usb is certainly a bummer. I wonder how they disabled it though – is there a hardware difference?

Have the X4, the size is perfect - I always have it in my pocket and can read a view pages whenever I am waiting for something. Reduced my phone usage / doom scrolling nonsense with it. Best 50€ spent in a long time.

I love my X4. I throw it in my backpack or pocket when I take the dog to the park and read a few pages when we sit in the shade.

I have a mudita kompact as my primary phone, is there any value in getting an additional device like this?

let's put a SIM card in there and use it as a smartphone ... I'd love that

been using on the back of my phone for a few months, my most satisfying hardware purchase in a long time

Just picked up an x3 from prime day sale (yeah, Amazon, sigh, I know). Super stoked to see how it is in practice. I’ve always espoused to my kids to be mindful about what they do during the “between” moments, but I increasingly find myself defaulting to HN/reddit for those little 5-10min chunks of waiting and I dislike that reflex. Looking forward to trying to build a habit around a pocketable e-reader. If nothing else, looking forward to attaching to a pocket notebook when traveling.

"X"-"tee"-"ink" .. ex-tea-ink .. extinct?

BRB, off to set up a "naming things as a service" startup.

I do wish I'd gotten the X4 not the X3. I was very scared off by the magnetic charger (which is apparently quasi standard?). I kind of want to muck with using the gyrometer (only on the x4) as an input device though. Allegedly the magnetic charger is somewhat common/interoperable, which de-risks the situation a lot.

I have an X4, though its not small enough to stick onto a phone (or my phone is not gigantic enough), I do love it, simplistic and purposeful

I would love if a device like this, combined with the zines of old would produce some really creative and interesting shortform content to get folks off smartphones.

I'm trying to think in terms of small wins more and 1 minute spent creating something dumb or doing something not on a phone is 1 less minute creepy, greedy tech bros can extract your data for profit.

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