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

If you’re looking for an e-reader that can effortlessly fit in your pocket (or break onto your magnet-equipped phone), the small Xteink X4 Pro power be value a look. It features a 4.26-inch, 800 x 480 E Ink display, making it considerably smaller and thinner than Amazon’s smallest six-inch Kindle. It’s additionally fairly a bit cheaper. Right now, you can choice it up for $84.15 ($25 off) at Amazon, which is its finest cost to date.

The X4 Pro brings multiple greeted upgrades complete its predecessors, including a touchscreen that gives readers another way to engage alongside it. It motionless has bodily page-turning buttons, though. There’s additionally a new touch-sensitive clasp below the display for quickly returning to the residence screen, alongside alongside a built-in ray alongside adjustable brightness and color temperature, so you can peruse in the dark. It ships alongside the outstanding CrossPoint Reader software, which makes navigating your archive and study books a much improved cognition than on former Xteink models we’ve tested, although it’s motionless not fairly as polished as Amazon’s software.

Understandably, not everyone is a fan of Xteink’s decision to toggle the X4 Pro’s USB-C harbor for a proprietary charging connector. If you can appearance former that, the X4 Pro is a great, small e-reader that features magnets that let you nexus it to compatible smartphones, fair akin former models. The magnetic association is stronger this period around, although we motionless desire it were a small additional secure. All the same, my coworker Andrew Liszewski motionless considers the X4 Pro the best small e-reader you can buy, calling it a equipment he “won’t depart the home without.”