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Here's a link to the hardware:

https://www.visionect.com/technology#hardware

Details of the controller board:

https://docs.visionect.com/VisionectPandaDS.html

And the thing that was interesting for me the most, the screens they use:

https://docs.visionect.com/ElectronicPaperDisplays.html

Now why the screens were most interesting for me? Because "e-paper" name has in the past been used not just for e-ink-like displays, but also for super-low-power LCDs, which is kind of a different thing. Fortunately, Visionect seems to be using "the real deal", i.e. ink-based displays.

Now the only question for me - where can I get my 24” e-ink display for my computer?

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In case the last question was serious (i honestly don't know): You wouldn't want that except for daily work (except maybe for reading longer texts), at least not with current e-ink technology. Even with proper colors, adding several 100ms of latency to everything you do at the computer slows you down while typing, makes scrolling ugly etc. Not to think of videos or games...

You can get refresh on a Kindle screen down to under 100ms if you want plain black and white. You only get the ludicrous refresh times if you want greyscale --- I believe they do some kind of dithering over time to achieve that.

Back in the old days I had a Hercules monitor with slow phosphor. I've tried to find some figures on the response rate, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was a similar speed to the eink screen. It was really comfortable on the eyes and I slightly miss it (of course, it was the size of a postcard compared to a modern monitor). So I think an eink monitor could be quite usable for certain purposes.

The thing I'd be concerned about is scrolling. We've got very used to monitors which will scroll smoothly. I've seen monitors which just turned into hash when scrolling; there's a reason why vi and emacs have modes for page-at-a-time scrolling.

Update: here's a 32" epaper monitor!

https://www.visionect.com/development_kits

Greyscale: $3600. Colour: $4700. There's a 13" model at a mere $999, but who wants that?

Slightly more realistically, there's the Dasung Paperlike:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9DbdaPQyLY

Interesting thanks. 13.3" is just under the size of US Letter or A4 paper.

Paging is honestly easier for me than smooth scrolling when reading text.

When smooth scrolling, you lose a lot of time following the animation and waiting for motion to stop.

For some use cases, this would be ideal. For others, not so much.

Can you speedily grayscale into black-and-white? That is, type a letter, putting black/gray into a previously white space (or vice versa, if using a dark color scheme), clearing a single-pixel-wide cursor and installing a new one to the right of the added letter. I don't need the letter to be fully black instantly, I just need to see that I have typed something.

It is serious. I'd like that for my text editor. And for most of my Internet browsing (which consists of reading text). It doesn't even need to be full-colour, I'd live with grayscale for now. Refresh rates are better nowadays, especially if you refresh only parts of the screen - which would be the case for text editing.

Sure it won't be as fluid as 1080p @ 120Hz, but I'd like it anyway.

On OSX, in the accessibility settings you can make your display greyscale, change the contrast and invert colors.

I desperately want a 10-12" e-ink ebook reader. Trying to read textbooks or programming tomes on a standard size Kindle is too painful. Not a whole lot of options out there though.

How about that ?

https://www.amazon.com/Kindle-DX-Wireless-Reader-3G-Global/d...

Even better maybe, the Onyx Boox Max at 13.3 inches:

http://www.banggood.com/ONYX-BOOX-Max-13_3-Inch-1G16G-Flexib...

Are there any good hackable e-ink tablets? I love the feel of my Nook but the software is terrible. I want to be able to wirelessly sync content from my own document management system without much fuss.

I periodically poke around on Alibaba looking for basic, blank e-ink readers but haven't seen much.

The Good e-Reader runs arbitrary Android apps and has a 13" display, if that meets your needs.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/13-3-inch-android-e-reade...

Sony made some models running Android that you could root, but I think their current offerings don't have that. For others (some Kindles, I think Nooks?) jailbreaks were also available, so that is something worth researching.

The nook can be rooted to run Android, I'm not sure if the newest models have the capability: http://www.babblingengineer.com/how-to/how-i-turned-my-nook-...

The Kindle DX would be nice, but I'm a little wary of buying used consumer electronics.

I looked at the Boox Max and it looks awesome, but it's a little rich for my blood right now. The regular Kindle costs $80, 10" Fire tablets are selling for $180, so nearly $800 seems like a lot.

As a Kindle DX owner, I would strongly recommend against purchasing one. They do show up on Amazon Warehouse as refurbs, but even still, you're not going to get any software upgrades, display of PDFs is awful, and it wasn't particularly fast even when new.

Sony has a 13 inches model as well that goes for 599 dollars. A bit cheaper but they appear to get rid of it, so you might need to pick one soon if you are interested...

The Kindle DX is like a decade old now I think.

Sony has one which seems really nice (based on the 2 minutes I played with it once): https://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/product-DPTS1/

Unfortunately it is a bit limited (only supports PDF's out of the box) in what it can do and much too expensive.

It is the best electronic device I have owned in years. Has a well defined feature set and hits that feature set spot on. Unlike most other devices, it does not try to lock you into any kind of ecosystem. Setup a webdav server, throw your pdfs on it and this device will automatically sync and pick up new pdfs you add to your server. Plus you can use a memory card.

I would've killed for this in grad school. At the time (well still, with the exclusion of this device), there weren't any eReaders with good PDF support, especially for technical documents with nontrivial typesetting.

I've been saying this since eBook readers came out. Sure the current kindle is convenient for travel, but for any serious reading, I want a larger one. It's why I still purchase larger hardcover books, and the kindle is only for convenience/travel.

You'll need to wait for E Ink to launch 24" displays :).

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