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If you want the link to the product without going through a wall of text. It’s approx $92 ($134 here in Australia) :

https://core-electronics.com.au/inky-impression-5-7-7-colour...

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Also direct from Pimoroni in the UK for less than £70 although, unfortunately, currently out of stock :(

https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/inky-impression-5-7

The Inky Developer is in stock, very similar but there's a cable between the display and the Raspberry Pi adapter board instead of the display mounting directly on the Raspberry Pi.

https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/inky-dev?variant=39685444...

I want to use this to read old magazines, color manga but this doesn't seem quite there in terms of saturation and color.

I await the day when I will be able to look at an eink screen and magazine and not tell the difference.

Pocketbook make two models (15cm and 20cm) of colour e-ink books - they've been around a while, and reviews tend to be generally positive. As noted by others on this thread, latency can be rough. Doubtless other vendors have some similar spec'd devices, but I've only ever used (monochrome) ebook readers from these guys.

[0] https://www.pocketbook-int.com/us/products/pocketbook-color https://www.pocketbook-int.com/us/products/pocketbook-inkpad...

It's not exactly the same -- these readers (and many other color e-readers released in the last decade) use a different type of e-ink panel, likely Kaleido. Kaleido has much better color resolution & depth, and shorter refresh times than the ACeP panel from TFA. However the con is that the colors look much more washed out and the display has less contrast overall and even limited color viewing angles. This is because Triton/Kaleido panels use color filters like any other LCD instead of actually having colored pigments like ACeP. ACeP is the only color e-ink panel I have seen which truly impresses a bit -- if you can stand the obscenely long refresh rate.

You're absolutely right. For 'old magazines', as per GP, it's probably just fine. I've no idea about how manga would fare.

There's some youtube videos that give a hint of colour reproduction - and yes, both those models are Keleido - and while they're certainly nowhere near print or LED quality, for most of my purposes I reckon they'd be a more than satisfactory replacement, especially given the benefits.

15 Seconds to turn a page would be rough too.

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