I've been looking at getting an e-reader in the last few days, and the Xteink X4 is one of the ones I considered. I think it's probably too small for my intended use, but it's cool that people are tinkering with it like this.
I got one around december/january this year. I don't know your use case, for me it is okay in terms of size for reading. I do read a lot on my phone, on my laptop, on a larger e-reader.
I recently got one of the Xteink X4 devices mainly as something to play with. Crosspoint is a big improvement over the vanilla firmware. This looks like a great evolution and I'll definitely give it a look.
On the device itself, for the price it feels like a very well built device and the screen is not bad at all. Took a few weeks to arrive in the UK from China. Can highly recommend if you want something small/compact for reading on the go that isn't your phone.
Nice. I have an X4 that I can try this on, currently waiting on an X3 to arrive so it actually clips to my phone. Great bit of hardware, and this project looks very fun.
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But for those that want that, I guess this is a cheap version?
On the device itself, for the price it feels like a very well built device and the screen is not bad at all. Took a few weeks to arrive in the UK from China. Can highly recommend if you want something small/compact for reading on the go that isn't your phone.