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Xteink X3
Built for the PDFs and articles piling up elsewhere.
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Why this beats your phone
It clears the pile of saved articles without opening the app you saved them in to avoid opening your phone in the first place.
The full picture
A tiny 3.7 inch e-ink reader, barely bigger than a credit card, designed for sideloaded EPUB and TXT files rather than a built in bookstore. It has physical page turn buttons, a gyroscope for flick to turn pages, and up to two weeks of battery from a single charge. This is the pick for people with a backlog of saved articles and PDFs sitting in a read it later app they never open.