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I'm not convinced on the price. It's about 75 euro delivered for me.

It's about half the price of a kobo Clara bw, which has much better specs, higher ppi, waterproof etc.

I am tempted though.

Sure the specs are better on other devices, but it comes down to what you'll actually use. Being so tiny I can just toss it in my pocket, and read a few pages with no effort. It's like having a fancy notebook: you end up being very intentional when you write in it, but you'll happily jot something on a scrap of paper without second thought.

Yeah, my old kobo clara hd fits in my pocket, but it's not perfect, feels like it would get damaged.

I had been looking at the clara bw when I thought my hd was broken but managed to repair it.

Do you have the X4 or X3? I imagine with the small size it's barely a few sentences per page? Feels like it would be difficult to read comfortably. Maybe it's like reading one of those tiny bibles.

My preferred Kindle 4 classic also fits in my pockets, used ones are at around 25 EUR and pretty hackable. I could barely imagine reading a book in 3.7", that's half of a smartphone.

> I could barely imagine reading a book in 3.7", that's half of a smartphone.

Current smartphones. The original iPhone had a 3.5" display and a lower PPI than the x3.

When I googled the dimensions of that it sounded a bit too big for a pocket.

I have a x4 (the old one with usb-c charging) and reading feels pretty comfortable to me, even with poor eyesight. I also tried using it to read a comic book at one point, but that was unreadable due to small letters/low resolution.

I don't read comic books or graphic novels but it would not shock me if those are unusable on these little devices.

I got a cheap x4 from aliexpress and it's been great. Thought it'd be weird to read a book on it but it really hasn't been. Sticks to my phone and slips into a pocket really easily.

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