X4

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

Not sure why people rave about the Xteink X4. It's an interesting enthusiast's device, but it doesn't even have a frontlight. I wouldn't recommend it as Baby's First E-Reader. Clara BW is a really great choice for the price. You can get a GlowLight 4 used for a really great price, but you have to tw

Seconding the posts suggesting looking at second-hand readers - e-readers have fragile screens but otherwise it’s tech that holds up well, so a second-hand Kindle or Kobo or PocketBook that is in a decent shape (the screen is intact) will be fine for this purpose. Even very old ones (15 years old) s

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.

There are reasons why most e-readers don't have glass screens... Reflections and worse light diffusion even when matte, weight, comprised contrast being some of them. Stupid idea IMO. It's not even that I don't care - I specifically don't want this in my device given the drawbacks it would ensure. P