The Xteink X4 Pro is a great, tiny e-reader, and it’s cheaper than ever

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Xteink X4 Pro The Xteink X4 Pro is inactive matching its Prime Day price. | Photography by Andrew Liszewski / The Verge


If you’re looking for an e-reader that tin easy acceptable successful your pouch (or drawback onto your magnet-equipped phone), the tiny Xteink X4 Pro mightiness beryllium worthy a look. It features a 4.26-inch, 800 x 480 E Ink display, making it importantly smaller and thinner than Amazon’s smallest six-inch Kindle. It’s besides rather a spot cheaper. Right now, you tin prime it up for $84.15 ($25 off) astatine Amazon, which is its champion terms to date.

The X4 Pro brings respective invited upgrades implicit its predecessors, including a touchscreen that gives readers different mode to interact with it. It inactive has carnal page-turning buttons, though. There’s besides a caller touch-sensitive fastener beneath the show for rapidly returning to the location screen, on with a built-in airy with adjustable brightness and colour temperature, truthful you tin work successful the dark. It ships with the fantabulous CrossPoint Reader software, which makes navigating your room and speechmaking books a overmuch amended acquisition than connected erstwhile Xteink models we’ve tested, though it’s inactive not rather arsenic polished arsenic Amazon’s software.

Understandably, not everyone is simply a instrumentality of Xteink’s determination to swap the X4 Pro’s USB-C larboard for a proprietary charging connector. If you tin look past that, the X4 Pro is simply a great, small e-reader that features magnets that fto you connect it to compatible smartphones, conscionable similar erstwhile models. The magnetic transportation is stronger this clip around, though we inactive privation it were a small much secure. All the same, my workfellow Andrew Liszewski inactive considers the X4 Pro the best tiny e-reader you tin buy, calling it a instrumentality helium “won’t permission the location without.”

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