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This has a refresh rate of 25 SECONDS - so it's not going to replace your black and white kindle display or be useful for dynamic content.

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Who remembers browsing the web/usenet on 28800Kbps modems?

I think you have an extra K on there! I do remember my 36 kbps modem though, but the web was optimized for that speed. Webpages had "image warnings"!

14.4kbps checking in.

A slow modem (or indeed no modem!) is nothing like a 30s refresh rate.

A slow modem meant waiting hours though.

30 seconds the image load hadn’t gotten to her neck yet.

Ah, 90s kids' nostalgia. How fun was it to start a large download before school and then running home to see if the download completed or was interrupted because your mom used the phone during the day? I remember it would take hours upon hours to download netscape. It was both exhilarating and infurating at the same time.

The web at 2400 baud was slow. Really slow.

My first modem was 75/300. It was capable of support both 75 baud and 300 when someone started serving that fast.

Fast enough for split screen chat in real time, if you were so fortunate as to have a friend with a modem also.

1200 baud yo!

(It was actually a really neat little thing, I wish I still had it)

hahaha I found it!!!

https://digitaltmuseum.se/021026360857/modem

28 megabits per second?! I sure don't...

I remember reading BBSs over a 300 baud modem. If you read fast, you could read the text at the speed it came in.

I remember that feeling when you get a shiny new 28800 USR Sportster, only to find out that your local BBS is capped at 9600...

Hacking USR Sportster 14.4k's to Courier 16.8k's. Good times, good times.

I'd buy one of these for a picture frame, to have changeable art. Sounds nuts (?), but at some point a big one of these would cost less than a painting and you have it change to suit your mood.

...and I've been postponing buying an E-ink device in hopes of getting a color one!

One of my main excuses has been the fact color is useful for programming books because you have syntax highlighting. Now I'm realizing reflective color screens may never really come, and it's probably better to devise some kind of software workaround. Some kind of system that would replace colored fonts with a system of very distinctive set of typefaces that work well in B&W.

This works out to be 0.04 frames per second! :(

    1 frame / every 25 seconds = 0.04 frames per second

Maybe slideshows are all it can handle

Bummer.

My oldest son is a voracious reader, and I would love to get him on an e reader, but I don't want to go for a traditional screen, so the lack of color e ink type option kinda stops me.

Does he only read comic books? Black and white screen is ideal for most of the world's books.

He reads just about anything but I'm not inclined to make an investment in a device that wouldn't include graphic novels and similar color content. I just don't think it would last.

I read a lot of comics, but I also read a lot of regular books. For now, I read using a 10" Chuwi tablet because it gives me a decent, color screen, at a decent size and weight, at a reasonable price.

I would LOVE to have an eink reader that could fulfill this role. I have been watching and waiting for years.

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