Kobo
Clara BW
$139.99
XTEINK
Based on 147 Reddit mentions
$69.00
Sentiment summary across the product areas Reddit users mention most.
Original Reddit posts and comments behind this analysis.
This may be a bit of a rant but here’s my perspective: The product XTEINK are busy selling is a small e-ink screen, not a book reader. The device is really cool because it’s minimalistic and pocketable but in order to be a book reader it lacks: decent epub rendering capability: it improved recently
...Internal_Panda_5122 in r/xteinkereader
December 11, 2025 3:05 PM
127
https://www.reddit.com/r/xteinkereader/comments/1q2rbga/x4_fades_in_direct_sunlight/ https://www.reddit.com/r/xteinkereader/comments/1q5fhwf/direct_sunlight_issue/ The official response from redditor u/xteink (please see the first link) was that this was normal and expected from e-ink readers. No other e-
...Random_Dude_ke in r/xteinkereader
January 10, 2026 3:17 PM
20
Check out xteink x4, it's 74g. Note that the software is very limited as it runs on the ESP32-C3 MCU. There is also Obook 5 at 100g. No need to ask here, just open https://comparisontabl.es/e-readers/ and sort the table by weight to see them all. Screenshot of the top lightest devices:
JetSerge in r/eink
November 14, 2025 5:41 AM
15
Dear u/xteink team. You forgot to say that first the people need to gather a font in the ttf format that includes all glyphs for the desired language. Than the people need to find a specific program on gitee or github, download this to their windows pc and convert in the ttf font file into the bin f
...Competitive-Win4945 in r/xteinkereader
October 29, 2025 4:50 PM
6
Reddit-mb in r/eink
October 21, 2025 4:53 AM
6
You can adjust text size, spacing and fonts but it's not as easy as with other readers. You have to use a separate Software on a computer to do that. Search for XTEink Toolkit.
SeeNoFutur3 in r/ereader
September 3, 2025 8:03 PM
3
For manga and comics on the X4, the key is getting your zips properly formatted as CBZ first most zip comic archives are basically CBZ already, so just rename the .zip to .cbz and make sure the internal images are JPG/PNG in page order. Then hit up an online CBZ-to-XTC converter; it'll optimize for
...f3rm1sp4r4d0x in r/xteinkereader
March 31, 2026 8:31 PM
1