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I use a Dasung Paperlike Pro to do work on occasionally. I love it. It was expensive but personally it was worth every penny. Nothing beats coding outdoors with natural light. Pretty much the only thing its good for is reading/writing, but that has its own benefits.

I had to customize colors in vim as well, since you lose all the colors when you use eink, but that's only a marginal drawback.

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I really really want an e-ink laptop, exactly for this purpose. I absolutely love working outside, like on my patio or wherever. I've tried just about every shade over the years, but anything other than basically enclosing the space between your head and the screen gives you too much ambient light for these LED screens.

Yeah I get you, the human eye works logarithmically so we can see in very dark spaces, but that means the light necessary to see a computer screen is a fraction of what comes from daylight. People were not meant to breath hvac air inside an unaturally lit cubicle. Fresh air, natural light, and proper sleep cycles(up with the sun, down with the sun) I feel are my secret sources of power.

Interesting, looking at the indiegogo page... "Fast as LCD" - is that true?

I have the first gen, which is nowhere near as fast as LCD. But looking at their videos it looks like they got the framerate to work at a much faster speed than mine which was leagues of improvement over a kindle. However, I'm confident that there will still be some lag between input and what you see.

They wrote their own software so that the display isn't doing a hard refresh every time the display changes, the downside is there is some ghosting, which is what the hard refresh on kindles will remove.

I use keyboard shortcuts extensively to the point where I rarely use a mouse so I can work with the low framerate of the first gen. It even forced me to get better with using keyboard shortcuts and now I have little to no problems with it.

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