E Ink Introduces “Print-Color” Displays

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23 points·sohkamyung··5 comments

I'm really looking forward to a good electronic replacement for paper.

After a long search for an e-reader that can handle academic papers, I came up empty handed. There just isn't a good solution right now since most devices have a screen that's too small and ebook conversion isn't a good workflow. Additionally, my field has lots of colorful figures that are hit or miss when converted to greyscale. The readers that are big enough also seem to get pretty mixed reviews.

What I really need is a dumb A4 sized e-ink PDF reader. That way I can stop printing out every article I want to read.

I'm sure that someone could make a killing on this product if it was at the right price point since most of my friends have a similar need. I was kind of surprised that nothing exists yet.

On my end I'm actually looking for a reliable and easy way to cut down the use of printers at work with an eInk based alternatives.

If only there was Letter/A4 sized color-eInk reader that was fast, could take a multitude of formats easily (PDF, LaTeX, you name it) and have it show up as a virtual printer (preferably with authentication so that not everyone can send a print job to it) on all common OS, that'd be great.

You just send your documents to it prior a meeting, your scribble some notes and save them to a storage system of your choice for archival.

Maybe keep an eye on the The Open Book Project [1] which is attempting to create an open-hardware eBook reader.

[1] https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book

I exists and it's called ONYX BOOX MAX 3

I just want an e-ink netbook so I can code outside in full sunlight.

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