Some of Xteink’s credit card-sized e-readers are losing their best feature

The X3 is Xteink’s smallest e-reader. | Photo: Andrew Liszewski / The Verge

The Xteink X4 and X3 are fantabulous alternatives to Kindles and Kobos if you privation an e-reader that's arsenic casual to gaffe into your pouch - conscionable not retired of the box. Both devices travel with banal firmware that's clunky, limited, and occasionally confusing, but that tin beryllium easy fixed by plugging them into a PC to instal alternative bundle called CrossPoint Reader which delivers a much polished idiosyncratic interface and improved functionality. But present buyers study Xteink is blocking the upgrade, which mightiness beryllium connected wherever you unrecorded and wherever you acquisition its devices.

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