The eBook Reader

With the recent release of the Xteink X4 Classic, there was a lot of blowback about Xteink’s decision to switch to a pogo connector instead of using a standard USB-C port like the original X4 had.

It looks like it might be possible to run newer versions of Android on Boox devices in the near future.

Here’s an interesting development.

The new Xteink X4 Pro has turned up on Xteink’s Amazon store in both Space Black and Mist Gray.

Even before Xteink announced they were discontinuing the Xteink X4, there were signs of a newer version taking its place, and now Xteink has officially let the cat out of the bag.

Amazon has put the 11″ Kindle Scribe with a frontlight on sale, but it’s kind of an odd sale because it’s the only Kindle being discounted right now, aside from a couple of refurbished models that I posted about earlier in the week.

Every once in a while I come across an old picture of a white Kindle (like the basic Kindle from 2019 pictured above) and wonder why Amazon ever got rid of them (yeah, they still sell a couple of white Scribes, but we’re talking about smaller Kindles here…

A couple weeks ago a new jailbreaking method was released for Kindles called Vera, and now there’s another new jailbreak called SpiderCat that’s even easier to use and it supports a wider range of Kindles, going all the way back to the Kindle Oasis 3 from…

Now that Amazon has raised the prices of Kindles by $40-$50 each, people are waiting for them to go on sale again.

Last month one of Onyx’s YouTube influencers let the cat out of the bag about Onyx releasing a new mini ereader soon called the Boox Picco.

Of all the Kindles that had their prices increased last week, the Kindle Colorsoft was hit the hardest in terms of how the price compares to similar models on the market.

It looks like Pocketbook is going to be entering the pocketable ereader market soon (with a name like “Pocketbook” maybe they should’ve thought of doing that sooner), but maybe not in the way we were expecting with the popularity of Xteink’s ereaders taki…

Kobo has released a new software update and it’s a bit of a mystery.

If Amazon expects people to pay $149.99 for a basic Kindle now, they should at least get rid of the ridiculous requirement to pay them an additional $20 on top of that to get rid of the advertisements that appear on the sleep screen when the device is tur…

I’ve got some bad news to share.