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Comment by qingcharles

20 hours ago

This seems to be a hot e-reader right now:

https://www.reddit.com/r/xteinkereader/

I really don’t understand the hype of that product.

It’s like an entrepreneur with social media marketing skills came across a container full of really cheap small eink displays, then designed a product and marketing around it.

  • The reason it's trending right now is because it's a convenient price, simple to use and making people read more because of its size. If it helps people cut down on phone use then it's a good product.

    The build quality could be better, but there doesn't exist a similar product with better build quality.

    Can you build a DIY version that's significantly cheaper?

    Well, this was my thinking for getting one, we shall see when it arrives :P

    Edit: Also you can choose to install a nice open source community firmware