Review: Xteink X3 is the little e-reader the world’s not quite ready for
If there’s one thing that’s holding back the X3 and the X4 and, frankly, all the other wacky readers out there, it’s the market. The e-reader space is still unquestionably dominated by Amazon purveying its razors-and-blades strategy: buy the Kindle for cheap5 and the company earns it all back when you buy your books or sign up for Kindle Unlimited’s all-you-can-eat plan. Kobo, who makes the hardware that I prefer, is a distant second, and has some advantages, but operates on roughly a similar scheme.
What I want, is to be able to run NetNewsWire on this. Or something similar that pulls new articles from RSS feeds to it. That’s my use case, in addition to reading books.
But it’s cheap, I’m tempted to just buy it.
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I linked to a X3 review recently. After reading the review, I looked at and asked Claude if it would work for my use-cases. Spoiler: it won’t. So this news does not really concern me.