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.
The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader
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Re: The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader
#92I've looked at this device and I wonder how good the layout engine is. Screenshots never show text with any hyphenation going on which makes me wonder if it even supports hyphenation. One of the images on the Amazon page for the reader has somebody holding one beside their laptop and if you look at the screen, it looks terrible. There are even words jammed together ("would be most suitable forthe job"). I love that i…
The layout engine is limited. It does flow text quite well, but when I had mine (the screen broke a few months ago) I was working on adding more features to the rendering engine. It's easy to write a HTML & CSS layout engine to support most of the epub spec, but hard to do it well on such a constrained chip. Even things like nested lists and inline code snippets are a challenge.
Flash Crosspoint. I reflows much better than stock. It also fixes the lack of space between paragraphs.
Re: The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader
#93Put two in a printed case, crosslink to make page turn work and it's a book reading experience.
Re: The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader
#94Got the X4. Put CrossPoint on it. Works like a charm. The http server accessible over wifi makes transferring books extremely simple. (Shame on the Kindle for locking everything down.) This is proof-of-concept that a microcontroller is more than enough for something like an e-reader. I have a Kindle and a Kobo. They are sturdy devices. But the X4 is the one that is a genuine e-reader. Would not get it as my one and o…
I love my X4 as well, and would love a backlight. Crosspoint and its downline forks are great.
the only funny thing about the X4 is reading it in bright sunlight. it will corrupt the image on the screen on page turn unless you shade it? something to do w/ older eInk screens and not having a UV Filter. weird, slightly annoying.
Its increased my reading 2-3x though!
Re: The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader
#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
It has perfectly usable buttons. Adding touch feels like straying from the core proposition to have a minimal reader.
Yeah I really like not having a touchscreen that I have to worry about bumping while I'm reading, a backlight is the only addition I would enjoy to the current x4
I love the buttons, would loath a touchscreen on this size format. Just add a backlight!
Re: The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader
#96Got the X4. Put CrossPoint on it. Works like a charm. The http server accessible over wifi makes transferring books extremely simple. (Shame on the Kindle for locking everything down.) This is proof-of-concept that a microcontroller is more than enough for something like an e-reader. I have a Kindle and a Kobo. They are sturdy devices. But the X4 is the one that is a genuine e-reader. Would not get it as my one and o…
Do you know what the maximum SD card size that it'll support?
I'm especially interested if a 1TB card will work.
Re: The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader
#97Got the X4. Put CrossPoint on it. Works like a charm. The http server accessible over wifi makes transferring books extremely simple. (Shame on the Kindle for locking everything down.) This is proof-of-concept that a microcontroller is more than enough for something like an e-reader. I have a Kindle and a Kobo. They are sturdy devices. But the X4 is the one that is a genuine e-reader. Would not get it as my one and o…
Do you know what the maximum SD card size that it'll support? I'm especially interested if a 1TB card will work.
How many books do you want to fit on that thing? :o
Re: The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader
#98I have the X4 and the X3 (newer smaller one). I will get whatever the next version is if it has a backlight or more DPI / support for smaller font. X4 is great - has usb-c charger and with the cover feels like an easy to pocket and bring everywhere reader. Does not fit on the back of an iphone. I assume the magnet layout works with popular android phones though. X3 is also great, actually fits on the back of the phon…
the next version will unfortunately be a generic Android reader. This device is good because, by chance, out of a thousand devices, one of them has to be better than all the rest. This product is not good by design or merit, but by chance. Same goes for lots of popular cheap Chinese tech, like the Miyoo Mini+ for example. Better than it has any right to be, and the people making it don't have a clue; every change to such a device can only be for the worse.
Re: The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader
#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you know what the maximum SD card size that it'll support? I'm especially interested if a 1TB card will work.
How many books do you want to fit on that thing? :o
I thought the compressed size of the LLM book corpus was a mere 100-200GB.
GP has big plans.
Re: The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader
#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
The layout engine is limited. It does flow text quite well, but when I had mine (the screen broke a few months ago) I was working on adding more features to the rendering engine. It's easy to write a HTML & CSS layout engine to support most of the epub spec, but hard to do it well on such a constrained chip. Even things like nested lists and inline code snippets are a challenge.
Flash Crosspoint. I reflows much better than stock. It also fixes the lack of space between paragraphs.
Sounds like it’s still pretty early days then. I’ll probably hold off for a year or two and check again.