To those of you who have multiple readers…

[bluepeter]

...And another one arrived here a couple of days ago.

This one's the XTEINK X3. The credit card is simply there for scale: it's tiny.

What do I think of it? Well, it's utterly brilliant for portability. If you want one that'll fit in a shirt pocket while you're out and about, this will do nicely. And book storage is impressive. Interestingly, it has none built in: all books are stored on a micro SD card. 16GB is supplied. Replacing this with something larger is a trivial job, though books on the card removed will have to be copied onto the new card if you still want to access them on the reader.

Usability, though, isn't wonderful.

• The firmware is far from being the best I've ever seen. It lacks a lot of the functionality to which I've become accustomed.
• The screen resolution is not great at 259ppi.
• The tiny 3.7" screen can only display about 90 words/page.
• The screen is not touch-sensitive. All navigation is by pressing buttons, and mine doesn't seem to register every button press.
• I don't know what processor it has, but it's inadequate. The reader is pretty slow to respond.