I would love something as responsive as the Remarkable tablet in this form factor
The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader
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#152Does anyone know if reading PDFs are supported on this device? I'd love to try it out for reading music while marching.
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#153Got 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.
512 GB according to the manual, but it probably depends on the card.
Re: The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader
#154Got 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 have the Kobo Libra Color and the contrast on the X4 is much much better.
The whole sticking-it-to-the-back-of-your-phone i find a bit useless, but mine came with two metal rings so that I can stick it to other places.
I have one ring on the dashboard of my car so the X4 can hang there until i need to use it. Good for trips with many stops.
Re: The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader
#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
There will be an Android (11, unfortunately) reader, the S4. (This is already visible on xteink.cn and they've teased it in social media.) There's also going to be an X4 Pro, which is an ESP32 reader too, and this seems to be an X4 with backlight and touch screen.
> There's also going to be an X4 Pro, which is an ESP32 reader too, and this seems to be an X4 with backlight and touch screen.
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Re: The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader
#156Got 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…
You can always install KOReader on Kindle to get the painless wireless transfer as well. It can even sync wirelessly with Calibre.
Re: The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader
#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
I thought the same thing until I got a kindle. It just feels different. The eink display is really nice to look at.
As I said, I have a kindle :). I'm specifically wondering about the X4, which is the size of a phone, meant to be attached to the phone, but it's not a phone and crucially no backlight. Does it specifically fill a situation for people who don't want to carry a phone but will carry this? Or, for people who might carry x4 and a smart phone, why read on the x4? Thx!
You read on a phone and on a tablet, so the X4 probably isn't for you. I hate reading for long periods on LCD screens. I have to do it all day at work and I don't want to do it at home. I read on a kindle unless I really need a computer screen for photos or graphs. I am just not going to pull out my phone to read a book, so an X4 sized device makes it easier to have a book with me. Since phone reading doesn't bother you, I doubt you would get much out of an X4.
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#158I'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.
>t's easy to write a HTML & CSS layout engine to support most of the epub spec
And yet reading systems fail to do that.
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#159I have been trying to move away from doom scrolling, and the vice I've replaced it with is online webnovels and webcomics. Reading from RoyalRoad or WebToons is hardly mentally stimulating, but I feel it's at least better than random tweets or vertical short form content. There are quite a few stories that I've come to really enjoy and look forward to reading when the new chapter comes out. It's not like I've stopped…
My reading habits are similar, and yeah I fell out of using my einks for similar reasons.
Even with a web browser, einkbro for Android eink devices, it just never felt as good as epubs or just my phone somehow.
Well ordered the X4 to try anyways.
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#160Picked one up a few weeks ago, I read blog posts on my commute now that an automation downloads at 5:30am every morning and uploads them to my OPDS server. The form factor really shapes how I use it. I put it in the pocket where I used to keep my thin wallet (wallet now stays in my bag if anyone here wants to rob me)