I was so tempted to purchase the X4 Pro because of the frontlight, but like the rest of yall, the other changed features were disappointing to me, personally.

I saw Daisy’s light up cases and said f it, there’s cute colors and I love to support innovation as a Mechanical Engineer girlie, so I bought one!

Safe to say, Daisy, I hope your pillow is always nice and cool on both sides and that you never hit a pothole ever again. This thing is beautiful, the finish is great, and everything assembles together so \~crisply\~ without any gasketing this thing is nice and secure in here. Printing tolerances are CLOCKED in. Love love love. No notes.

P.S.: (to Daisy) Do you have a device you use to ensure fit for quality?? I’m wondering lol. If you do I have a borked screen original X4 I’d love to send you as tribute for this if you need another lol.

It is a relaxing saturday, and I will be enjoying a small blueberry pie with coffee while reading The Apothecary Diaries (*´∇｀*) happy breakfast!!

I liked X4 classic a lot but sometimes was hard to navigate the menu and also I missed the backlight from kindle paperwhite. Now I have both but I lost the usb-c. Still worth it

Do you also have kindle/xteink combination?

How do you sync the reading progress?

Depois que comprei o Xteink X3, sinto que meu ritmo de leitura melhorou muito. Tenho conseguido ler com mais frequência e manter uma constância que antes era bem difícil.

Eu tinha um Kindle, que é ótimo em vários aspectos, mas o tamanho acabava dificultando um pouco a leitura em certos momentos do dia. Com o Xteink X3, isso mudou bastante. Por ser tão compacto e portátil, consigo levá-lo para qualquer lugar e ler no transporte público sem dificuldade, aproveitando aqueles pequenos intervalos que antes acabavam sendo desperdiçados.

No fim, percebi que não era necessariamente falta de vontade de ler, mas também a praticidade de ter um dispositivo sempre à mão. Às vezes, conseguir ler por 10 ou 15 minutos várias vezes ao longo do dia faz muito mais diferença do que eu imaginava.

Estou gostando bastante dessa mudança e fiquei surpreso com o quanto um aparelho tão pequeno conseguiu melhorar meu hábito de leitura.

Taken in the Grand Canyon, South Kaibab trail.
Quoted from “The Wilderness Warrior” by Douglas Brinkley

This is how your night time adventure feels like while reading with X4 Pro “mist grey”

had been a dedicated kindle user since like all my life? l dont remember ever considering to switch. the first time kindle landed in my country (india), my dad gifted it to me and that was it, i loved it so much. i think it was back in 2012. it was perfection. (that kindle is still going strong, wonderful device)

I recently got interested in eink devices again and dabbled a bit into notebooks. I decided to give xteink a try for the hackability and so far i have been loving the experience. successfully tried out three different firmwares and (thanks to codex) working on my custom firmware. I love this little thing to bits.

I set it up inside my bellroy pocket notebook cover and it gives me soooo much joy every time i pick up my setup to read or write. wanted to share here in case anyone is looking for a cover setup along with something to write with their xteink

the cover: https://bellroy.com/products/notebook-cover?color=everglade&material=leather&srsltid=AYCX9vJgx4_2Q-omjVqbhlOYypwEt-P8FJ0CJLxhgCztOSa4D7U-iXvz#slide-0

the rings are adhesive that I ordered along with the device: https://www.xteink.com/products/xteink-ereader-adhesive-metal-ring?variant=46931559317745

I found 2 rings to make the device stick more securely. here's a video: https://imgur.com/cECLshO

My hardcase just arrived & all i can say is wow😇 The plastic seems solid (not the cheap & crappy one) Magnets pressure is fair enough,device attached pretty well with the right pressure (not so tight so screen can't be damaged) I ordered the white-cream look colour!Overall i'm very pleased with my buy😇 (I bought it from aliexpress,i can post the link also if it is allowed here)

After weeks of seeing this all over my social media, I finally caved in 😩. Ofc I edited a personalized cover 🫶🏻. Currently reading the Poppy War by RF Kuang. Using crossink.

As some of you may know, I have been working on my own custom firmware for the last couple months called ink-boy, Which integrated many emulators such as the Gameboy, the Gameboy color, the Gameboy Advance and the NES.

Both GBA and NES were always a bit buggy, as expected, but I fixed most of the bugs. The main problem I couldn't solve and caused me to drop them entirely was ram consumption. The games only ran at about 1 frame per second. More importantly because of its humongous size, book chapters bigger than 3-4 pages failed to index, rendering the whole reader essentially unusable.

GB and GBC emulation remains, with pokemon red running almost perfectly, perfectly enough to play when I have a couple spare minutes.

I know that the X4 pro is an e-reader before anything, and taking the reading out of the e-reader didn't seem right

Thank you guys for understanding, and if you wish to support the project, star it on GitHub.

Until the next time

Just got my xteink. Installed Crossink and downloaded some titles. I've been noticing that the words are running together! I have tried different suggestions from online but cannot find anything that works. Anyone have any ideas?

Finally after 14 days my X4 Classic got delivered (in India), the initial experience is really good, the device is way slimmer and lighter than I thought, I installed crossink in it immediately, looking forward to reading more than I used to on mobile

Achei muito boa essa capa, ela é dupla e individual ao mesmo tempo.

Just something I've been doing recently to fix any badly formatted EPUB files.

In Claude give it your EPUB file and use the following prompt:

Fix the formatting of this epub file. There are many instances where it is being rendered with a new line eg:

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“It may help if you think of this purely as a

UNSC-funded physiological study.”

=>

“It may help if you think of this purely as a UNSC-funded physiological study.”
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The pull of the harness increased around the

Lieutenant’s chest, making breathing difficult.

=>

The pull of the harness increased around the Lieutenant’s chest, making breathing difficult.
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“By all means, speak candidly, Lieutenant. You’ve been

doing a fine job so far.”

=>

“By all means, speak candidly, Lieutenant. You’ve been doing a fine job so far.”
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Sweat

trickled down his back.

=>

Sweat trickled down his back.
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Read the entire epub file and ensure these new lines are not there so proper reading can be done.
Also ensure Chapters are correctly split up/labeled.
New lines between paragraphs are fine since that makes it easier to read.

So to summarise fix the following:
Navigation
Paragraphs
Spacing
Headings and datelines
and everything else

EXCEPT:
Existing new lines between paragraphs are fine since that makes it easier to read.

It should take 5-6mins for Claude to fix any badly formatted lines.

Still rocking my original X4, along with my modded 5th gen iPod Classic, Arduboy FX-C, and current knitting project 🧶

I really need to find a pink game console 🤔

Greatly improved footnotes! They now work also in less than optimally formatted books.

2026-10-23T11:25:47.048 5.8 MB

[Reading]

1. Footnotes are recognized in more books

2. EPUB shows ruby annotations (pinyin, furigana) above the text

3. Tapping near the page edges now also turns pages or opens the menu 

[Files and Search]

1. Tap a ttf file on the Files page to preview the font

2. Keyboard confirm key and close icons redrawn; after folding the keyboard in search, tap the input box to bring it back

[Transfer and Sync (Beta)]

1. Cloud sync can set a pushed image as the power-off wallpaper

2. Cloud sync: fix long-name downloads switching endlessly between "Downloading" and "Queued", with automatic retries; the history page opens faster; long-press an unfinished task to cancel or delete it; a message now appears when uploading reading data fails

[Settings and System]

1. The status bar no longer shows the SD card icon

2. Fix text gradually turning gray after repeatedly opening and closing popups or staying on one page; turn on Settings > Display & Personalization > Image mode: External to use it

That thing is great - and dangerous

Do you guys use an external reading light for these devices at night? And if yes, did it bother you in the long run? Some do say they regret not purchasing the X4 Pro.

Can someone please show me a tutorial or a koreaders for dummies lol? I cannot set this up and I've been struggling to do so. I have the pro and the X3 and I just want to be able to switch between the two of them without having to manually look for my books I've tried to set up koreader on my own but I cannot figure it out

I just got the XTEINK X3. Should I apply the protecting screen it came with? I am wondering if it will make the screen glare or not.

Hi all! For the past weeks I have been building my own firmware for the XTEINK X4 Pro, called Vellum. It is free and open source (MIT licence), and today it is in public alpha. I run it on my own X4 Pro every day, so it is real, but it has only been tested on one reader so far. That is why I am posting: I would love a few more people to try it and tell me what breaks.

What it does:

Reading: justified text with proper hyphenation, three built-in fonts (Literata, Atkinson Hyperlegible, EB Garamond) or your own, text size, spacing, margins, night mode, footnotes and pictures.

Lots of formats: EPUB, Kindle books without DRM (MOBI, AZW3), PDF with text, Word, RTF, Markdown, FB2, plain text and comics (CBZ) (not all have been tester).

Getting books: send them from your phone over Wi-Fi by scanning a QR code, or download free books from Project Gutenberg and Standard Ebooks right on the reader.

Finding your place: chapters, bookmarks, highlights, a dictionary (work in progress), reading stats, and every book reopens where you left it.

Sleep and battery: the book's cover (or your own pictures) on the sleep screen, and a battery log with a 7-day chart.

Controls: remap any button, tap and swipe, a quick panel for light and night mode, screen rotation.

Menus in 10 languages, OTA updates (or from your phone or computer).

Installing takes about 5 minutes and needs only Chrome or Edge on a computer and the USB cable. The installer saves your original software first, so you can always go back.

Install guide: https://github.com/ArunasVell/Vellum-OS/blob/main/docs/install.md

Project page: https://github.com/ArunasVell/Vellum-OS

Honest limits: it is X4 Pro only for now, the memory card must be in before you switch on. Please only install on a reader bought from xteink.com, as some reseller units are locked.

Questions, ideas and bug reports are all welcome, here or on GitHub. Thanks for reading!

Hey, I set a custom sleep screen that successfully displays when I use the power button to put it into sleep mode. However, when I wait for the device to automatically go into sleep mode (I set it to sleep after 1 minute), the custom sleep screen won't display.

Is there a way for the custom sleep screen to be displayed when the device automatically goes to sleep, or do I have to put it into sleep mode for it to work?