Small E-Ink Reader That Changed My Reading Habit 72 ▲ Matthew Bogart 51 days ago · Tech · hide · 7 comments A while back I read The Last Quiet Thing, a fantastic piece by Terry Godier, a piece about a twelve-dollar Casio watch compared to an Apple Watch, and why one of them is a product and the other is a relationship. I've been thinking about it ever since, keeping my eye out for single-use devices that just get out of the way. That's how I ended up with an Xteink X4 in my pocket.It's a tiny pocketable e-reader, smaller than a cell phone, with an E-Ink screen and no agenda beyond displaying books. No notifications, app store, or social feed. Hell, no internet access. It reads DRM-free EPUB files, the open ebook format for books that aren't locked inside places like Amazon's shitty ecosystem. It's $69, there's a 20% off code running right now (xteink20%).I already had a small collection of EPUBs kicking around. Cory Doctorow sells all his books as DRM-free files at craphound.com, and I'd grabbed a Humble Bundle of his work years ago. There's also Standard Ebooks, a volunteer-run project… Log in to reply on the Fediverse. Comments will appear here. Andreas Gohr @splitbrain@fedi.splitbrain.org 50 days ago [-] okay okay. I just ordered one. you can all now stop writing about it 😉 birdbrained :BirbMgpi: @crowy@squawk.social 49 days ago [-] aughh- gosh; these little XTEINK readers always look so neat!!...but -- already having an e-reader -- the uncertainty of whether this would actually help me read more always makes me hesitant to get one... don't wanna get one, only to have it end up as e-waste 🥺 birdbrained :BirbMgpi: @crowy@squawk.social 48 days ago [-] okay, whatever, the 20% discount pushed me over the edge, I fell for the meme rysearch @rysearch@mastodon.social 48 days ago [-] @bubbles next post from OP: "free e-ink reader via referral links" =] birdbrained :BirbMgpi: @crowy@squawk.social 48 days ago [-] @bubbles eeeevil,,,,between the links in the article actually having a "referrer" parameter and XTEINK appartenly preparing for new models, you had me out there checking if I missed a BOGO or smth 😭😭 etra @etra@fosstodon.org 49 days ago [-] I'm an awful reader, last book I read was like, 10 years ago, then when these devices started to pop-up I bought one and now I've read more than in my entire life.Such a little awesome format to be honest. Dan Hill @dan_hill@mastodon.social 48 days ago [-] Fantastic little devices. The way you can chop and change the OS on the devices is great too.
