Hawk eye
15 de septiembre de 2026
The break I've been yearning for....
Growing up, I loved to read. I also grew up as a lifetime gamer. A good book was one of the very few delights that could pull me away from my Nintendo (which I still have and still play, some things won't change!).As I'm approaching middle age, I'm taking a more critical look at things, and have had to admit that like most, I spend too much time on screens. I'm an analyst in profession, so I'm at a PC all day. As I said, I still play video games, so that's more screen time. However, where I differ is instead of doom-scrolling, I'm always working to feed my insatiable curiosity. Where a peer of mine would be on TikTok speeding through videos or reading the news, I'm on YouTube watching a video about hornets (which I dislike, and they dislike me) or reading through pages of a software/coding forum.However, despite this difference, the core concern remains: Too much tech, too much screen, too much functionality. I've been yearning to take up reading again, and tried the usual: got a Kindle, liked it for a few months, then my curiosity saw me....well....use it beyond it's intended purposes. Simple as it was, I also didn't feel comfortable taking it around with me for fear of damaging it as well. I of course tried physical books, but I strongly dislike being interrupted to chat, and there's always someone who has to grab my book, read it's title aloud, and start bombarding me with commentary on it. So, I moved to the Kindle app on smartphone and tablet so as to remain incognito by way of passing off as another doom-scroller , but reading at night became an exercise in resisting sleep thanks to blue light and also reading stories that got my imagination or again curiosity going. So, the past five years or so have been a perpetual hope of finding something, anything, that would let me read on the go.Are you still reading this review? If so, I think you'll like this device, with a slight technical caveat. Also, if you're reading my review, you've read others. So, you know about this device's battery life, it's form, fit and function, so I will not waste more of your time going over such points again. But I will say that this device has been the catalyst I've been hoping for.It's tiny, and with the XTEINK X3 official case around it, I am very comfortable slipping this into my pocket and going about my day. While my mind is being stimulated due to reading old classic books, thus preventing night reading, I am much more at ease now. Instead of being caught up in internet trends on a smart device, I can take this device out, and read at will. As Vargas, R put so well in their review, it doesn't matter if I'm relaxed at home, standing in line at the market, sitting at a cafe, etc. I can read, not worry about someone grabbing it and wanting to drown me in their comments since there's no visible title, and this device is just modern-looking enough that I still appear to the uninterested observer to be yet another doom-scroller, just with an oddly tiny phone(?) in my hand. It's not a backlit screen, so there's no blue light concerns (although you'll need external light in the dark, as you would with a physical book) and battery life is superior. I also am gradually experiencing degrading vision and am already blind in my left eye, yet even I have this device's text size small (the smallest font size, but in bold) and have no eye strain.Now, to end my long-prefaced, short review, I'd like to discuss the software side, since that's where I observed most complaints before purchasing this device. I cannot speak for this device's reliability in wireless connectivity at any depth. While I'm not an IT expert, I would regard myself as tech-savvy, and feel I could test said connectivity. But since I want this device to be as "standalone" as possible, I simply removed the 16 GB MicroSD card this device came with, formatted on my PC, went to the Gutenberg Project's website, and spent an hour hand-selecting books of various genres. I downloaded them all first to my PC for archival, and copied the files to the MicroSD card. After ejecting the MicroSD card and inserting it into this X3, my full library uploaded to the card appeared without incident, and I immediately dove into my first book.So, it is here I return to my mention of a technical caveat. You will need to utilize IT to get this device going, be it Wi-Fi or card handling. But I found removing and working the card on my PC then reinstalling it to the X3 was painless and simple, so I would recommend that route to anyone that buys this and doesn't HAVE to have their new X3 connected wirelessly.Ver másVer menos
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