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you can't overstate how much nicer it is to read on an eink screen compared to a phone. but the magnet gimmick is silly, it's hard to use it like that and negates one of the main benefits, which is how light it is
I have an eink ereader, and it really is wonderful, but I absolutely would not use it as much if it was the size and shape of my phone. For short stretches I guess it's fine, but one of the reasons I got an ereader is because my phone was so ergonomically bad for reading.
i'll try not to sound like a shill here (i bought the x4 a few months ago) but i thought the same and tried it anyway due to how cheap it was. the text can of course be set to the same size you like it on a normal ereader but it's so light that you can hold it in thumb + forefinger without effort, i quickly came to prefer it over the old kindle paperwhite i was using
Honestly, people seem to really like them based on the comments here. 70 seems silly to essentially combine two products I already have, but I may give it a week or so and if it's still top of mind go ahead with it. I really appreciate people bothering to share their experiences with it, since I really was not convinced by the article.
I think of it less as "combine", and more "separate" on purpose. There's the images pointing out how much stuff one had to carry before that a smartphone replaces as one slab but... it doesn't do most of those things as well.
I really like my X4 from that standpoint. It's much longer battery than my phone screen grants, and I don't have to open any menus to toggle anything to say "go away, notifications", or anything like that. I'm separated from everything else on my phone while I read on it.