Small E-Ink Reader That Changed My Reading Habit

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…