Good to know. Based on your remarks and another persons, I’m gonna move this up to top of my “to read” list. I have it loaded and ready to go.

Oh, good to know! I have it on my ereader now but haven’t gotten around to reading it just yet.

You are def an early adopter for this one. I’m having a hard time even finding hands-on reviews of it.

Hopefully they can get the software fixed. That can def make or break a ebook device for me. Once I found Crosspoint (for my xteink) and KOReader (for my kindles and pocketbooks), I don’t feel I ever wanna switch.

I love the look and idea of it. Still a little pricey for my blood. How long did it take for you to get it after you ordered it?

How is the build quality feeling? I love the look of this thing.

Looks like a cool little reader. Not cool enough to make me trade in my Xteink reader since they are going after the same market, but I’m glad companies are still working and being innovative with new e-readers.

I agree. I love my littel Xteink reader, but I have never attached it to my phone. I couldn’t even if I wanted to, because I have a little poppy holder thing on the back of my phone anyway.

Yep, it’s just Lemmy doing that. All I did was post link to the article.

I’ve been following e-ink since it was first introduced, and I’ve just never been impressed. You do have a good point about the backlight, but I’ve never seen the color devices as worth the extra cost. Looks like it may be a tech limitation though, since they have been trying to get color to work right for years. And they never get it right.

Sure. It just needed to be said here because the misleading image was posted here.

Well not so much “posted here”, as much as I just posted a link to the article. If there is a misleading image in the article, that’s not my issue.

Not that you are accusing me, but I just want to clarify in case someone misreads that.

I don’t see a need for color e-ink anyway though. I only read novels and stories, so I’d never pay extra for color e-ink devices

Working on it! :)

Be forewarned, I may have oversold it a bit because I love these kinds of stories! lol

It’s def a product of it’s time, but it’s a fun little read if ya just go in expecting some early 20th century writing nonsense. It’s definitely not to everyone’s taste. And unfortunately has some ugly stereotypes, because people could get away with a lot of shit back then. But I like weird obscure stuff and sorta bad writing from the early pulp eras, so this was interesting to me. :)

Here’s the opening illustration. LMAO

I don’t mind updates like better use of resources, stronger screens, different colors, etc. But I definitely don’t like redesigns that are done just for the sake of redesigning. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

This is a fun read! I love lore about books and texts so lost and evil that one person “burnt them to ashes and cut his own throat with a razor.”

Here’s an example of how the story starts:

I READ of it first in the strange book of Von Junzt, the German eccentric who lived so curiously and died in such grisly and mysterious fashion. It was my fortune to have access to his Nameless Cults in the original edition, the so-called Black Book, published in Dusseldorf in 1839, shortly before a hounding doom overtook the author. Collectors of rare literature were familiar with Nameless Cults mainly through the cheap and faulty translation which was pirated in London by Bridewall in 1845, and the carefully expurgated edition put out by the Golden Goblin Press of New York, 1909. But the volume I stumbled upon was one of the unexpurgated German copies, with heavy black leather covers and rusty iron hasps. I doubt if there are more than half a dozen such volumes in the entire world today, for the quantity issued was not great, and when the manner of the author’s demise was bruited about, many possessors of the book burned their volumes in panic.

Von Junzt spent his entire life (1795-1840) delving into forbidden subjects; he traveled in all parts of the world, gained entrance into innumerable secret societies, and read countless little-known and esoteric books and manuscripts in the original; and in the chapters of the Black Book, which range from startling clarity of exposition to murky ambiguity, there are statements and hints to freeze the blood of a thinking man. Reading what Von Junzt dared put in print arouses uneasy speculations as to what it was that he dared not tell.

What dark matters, for instance, were contained in those closely written pages that formed the unpublished manuscript on which he worked unceasingly for months before his death, and which lay torn and scattered all over the floor of the locked and bolted chamber in which Von Junzt was found dead with the marks of taloned fingers on his throat? It will never be known, for the author’s closest friend, the Frenchman Alexis Ladeau, after having spent a whole night piecing the fragments together and reading what was written, burnt them to ashes and cut his own throat with a razor.

I never read it like that until you just mentioned it. I’m not sure what the history of the name is, but it’s awkward to type for sure. Great reader though!

I love that the company listened to complaints and are bringing back USB-C. I love my little xteink reader, and it’s my daily reader now. But for right now, looks like this version is only available in China. I still support the company though, and I think we’ll start seeing them sold here in US soon enough.

From article:

but there’s a catch…

From everything I’ve read, it sounds like the S4 is only going to be available in China, as Xteink reps have said there are no plans to release it internationally, but that’s not going to stop people outside of China from buying it anyway, and Xteink seems like the kind of company that changes course every 5 minutes so who knows what next month will bring.

Good! It’s a great e-reader (it’s my daily reader) and the only reason I skipped the newest models was because of lack of USB-C port.

Official response from founder of Xteink about the official update over the pogo vs USB-C battle:

Thanks again to everyone who joined the discussion around Pogo and USB-C. I’ve spent a lot of time reading through the comments and bringing the feedback back to our team.

One thing became pretty clear: some of you really value having the thinnest and lightest device possible, while others would rather accept a little more thickness for USB-C and a more convenient everyday experience.

We don’t think everyone should have to make the same trade-off.

So we’ve decided to work in both directions.

We’ll keep exploring thinner and lighter eReaders, while also working toward bringing USB-C back as an option in future products.

That work has already started.

Thanks for being so direct with us. Please keep the feedback coming.

Good point! I turn WiFi off on all my reading devices for the same reason.

KOReader runs on this, so that’s a big plus.

I totally agree.