Now that it’s apparently ‘the run up to Christmas’ (yep, deal with it), tech companies are beginning to unzip their trousers and flop their festive wares across the table. eReaders are king of the Xmas tech gifts, but why splash out on a Kindle when you can get one for just £8? This is the Txtr Beagle.

The Txtr is a diddly eReader with a 5-inch display, which will be winging its way across Europe from Germany soon. It’s powered by a couple of AAA batteries and stuffs in 4GB of (non-expandable) storage.

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There’s sadly no WiFi, but does boast Bluetooth compatibility. It’s got a unique approach to managing your eBooks – it uses that connection and a dedicated iOS app to send books across to to the Txtr Beagle from your iPhone.

Oh, and did we mention that price? The Txtr is €10 in its native Germany, which directly translates to £10. In a world where even the cheapest Kobo Reader is still touching the £50 mark, that’s insane value. Can you say ‘stocking filler’?

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  • Ryu Kent

    Where can we buy these?

  • Anonymous

    Other reviews have it down as 4Mb storage. In any case, can only imagine how dire this thing is going to be. My worse purchase of 2012 was a Kobo Touch and it’s truly dire. So bad that after a couple of weeks I went screaming back to Amazon (my Kindle 3 died) for a new one. Point is, since Kobo’s are £85 are crap it doesn’t take an hell of a lot of clock cycles to figure this thing will be naff.

  • http://twitter.com/PCSievers P.C. Sievers

    Their website (google the product name Txtr Beagle) has an email subscription on it to sign up for updates. It seems they arent being sold anywhere.

    It is compatible with iOS and Android which is used to send the files from your collection. What actual books and articles it can handle from those devices is the big question, if it can interface with the Kindle files in some way it is really huge, but if not it should support a huge library of publishing formats even if you dont know how to rip Kindle DRM out of your own purchased book files to use on your own e-reader (I have a book on Kindle and dont endorse piracy in any way).

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