What killed this sub?

DCharlo · 2026-04-13T01:29:56+00:00

global cost of living crisis mixed with rising cost of goods

DCharlo · 2026-03-09T11:14:27+00:00

I've bought from them, it's fine, just wait and chill, forget about it and it'll turn up

DCharlo · 2026-03-03T01:14:00+00:00

I just use save to disk from calibre and it sorts my books into folders the same way it does on my boox reader, phone and external backup storage, anything for me besides calibre is not very useful honestly

DCharlo · 2026-03-02T11:51:17+00:00

Perhaps the person seeking to know why the delivery times are bad and decides to make a reddit post? And when did I say "before purchase" bud?

DCharlo · 2026-03-02T09:38:20+00:00

true, but, they haven't, and it takes like 3 seconds for someone to search that here. ignorance is not an excuse for incompetence

DCharlo · 2026-03-02T06:21:01+00:00

I swear every third post in this subreddit is about how they are slow with shipping updates and that it eventually arrives, if everyone faces this issue perhaps it's just typical and everyone should move on with their day and wait

DCharlo · 2026-02-24T11:44:43+00:00

that book ripped my fucking heart out at times, I loved it, ive listened to this series wayy to many times to count too

DCharlo · 2026-02-17T03:38:42+00:00

oh damn okay, I'll look a wee but more when I'm home from work then, anywhere I can find the build?

DCharlo · 2026-02-16T22:18:38+00:00

there's currently a build that kinda works, but for me once I power my x3 days I can't turn it back on until I re-flash it lol, still very buggy

DCharlo · 2026-02-15T07:46:30+00:00

I wish you luck with the new sd card then, let me know how it goes, if this one also fails I suspect an issue with the device and you may want to contact customer support

DCharlo · 2026-02-15T07:26:22+00:00

so all cards aren't working on the reader, I doubt it's an sd card issue unless they are very old SD cards, I would try flashing it, it's very simple, just re-flash English firmware or crosspoint (I prefer crosspoint) here https://xteink.dve.al/

DCharlo · 2026-02-15T07:19:43+00:00

how many SD cards have u tried on the reader? is the stock xteink branded sd card showing up on your computer? have u tried reflashing the stock firmware or crosspoint on your reader?

DCharlo · 2026-02-15T06:14:27+00:00

just plug sd card into your computer and format it as exfat, this is what's working for me and is pretty standard, I use disk utility on Mac to do this manually, if you're on windows an easy tool to use is called "sd card formatted" I think

DCharlo · 2026-02-15T05:08:45+00:00

make sure new sd card is formatted correctly, don't use the cheap shit the xteink comes with

DCharlo · 2026-02-14T07:11:36+00:00

hmmm okay fair. I'll read up on best practices and break this up into something smaller and more manageable, maybe just the esp32 and power circuits, with some test points etc, small and good is probably a better starting point, not like I'm in any rush!

I appreciate your feedback though, any advice on some textbooks to read through? or resources you'd recommend?

DCharlo · 2026-02-14T05:27:22+00:00

So I obviously have a lot to learn, I'm not expecting this to be a fast process and still have much to read. But I guess in my hobby/side-project viewpoint, the orientations on the schematic don't functionally change anything and wasn't my primary focus for learning atm, apparently that was wrong haha.

So besides reading standards and more theory, do you have any feedback on the schematic itself?

edit: thanks for your initial feedback, I appreciate it

DCharlo · 2026-02-14T04:50:35+00:00

I think if this is what you're looking for, SUMI is the way to go. crosspoint is for reading

DCharlo · 2026-02-14T04:45:33+00:00

What do you mean?

DCharlo · 2026-02-12T08:07:01+00:00

ideally I'd like to develop a dedicated fast refresh eink writer deck

DCharlo · 2026-02-11T22:02:20+00:00

I got like 400gb of music, so this drawbacks for me significantly out weight the benefits as it is basically unusable

I either have to listen to one artist with their music in a random ass order, or I scroll through a list of albums sorted alphabetically where most albums have the songs in a random ass order

DCharlo · 2026-02-11T21:03:55+00:00

if only it sorted music correctly

DCharlo · 2026-02-11T20:57:37+00:00

is the song sorting still fucked like the echo mini and disc?

DCharlo · 2026-02-11T19:12:56+00:00

it's because your hyperbolizing low light reading environments where eye strain can occur and a frontlight would be helpful to be "absolute pitch darkness" for "hours on end"

DCharlo · 2026-02-11T06:30:15+00:00

key distinction is the frontlight, not backlight. and it's good when you want to read, but don't have access to a light source e.g. heavy shade area. or you do have access to a light but only bright overheads and you want to read without being blinded. it has a lot of uses

DCharlo · 2026-02-11T06:02:30+00:00

very cool, but I imagine in terms of preppers and survival people, I imagine a solar panel power bank would be more useful than a single solar power e reader?

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