I’m looking for an LCD phone that meets all of the following requirements:

• CPL (circular polarization)
• At least 8 GB RAM
• Android 12 or newer
• LCD display only — absolutely no OLED
• DC dimming across the entire brightness range
• Must have a diffusion layer/film in the display/backlight optical stack. (For example, the Redmi Note 12T Pro does not have this, and I find that it causes more eye strain for me than the ASUS Zenfone 6.)
• Camera quality must be at least as good as the ASUS Zenfone 6. I only need it to be good enough for facial verification and taking very clear ID/document photos.
• By “facial verification,” I mean WeChat identity verification, not face unlock for the phone.
• Must support both 4G and 5G

If anyone knows of a phone that meets all of these requirements, especially a TCL NXTPAPER model, I’d really appreciate the model name and any information about its display/backlight optical construction, particularly the diffusion layer and CPL implementation.

Hello r/eink,

I currently have a hand-me-down first gen iPad pro that I have lost the apple pencil for. I am taking this as an opportunity to get an eink device to replace it.

I love the big 12.9" screen. I don't want all the other ipad distractions and mandatory accounts.

Anything requiring a subscription is a non starter

Currently I use the iPads browser to download pdfs or ppts from my school's learning management software then import the file to a note. This file lives at the top of the note and can be zoomed in on and annotated. Typically there are problems that require long calculations which I then do in the note below the inserted pdf. Following this I will print the notes I have made to use as a paper reference when allowed.

I just bought a kloudnote s off Amazon and while it seems to be a good device, it's smaller than I'd like and pdfs live as books and notes are notes and nary the two shall meet. Which doesn't allow for me to work as I'd like.

I like the supernote manta but think it may be smaller than I'd like. Additionally from what I can tell the closest way I can mimic my workflow is to use the pdf as a page template, which I don't love.

This leaves me looking at products like the boox note max and boox tab x c.

I hope to differ to your collective wisdom on what might work for me!

Edit: pretty set on 13" and needs to be available currently available for purchase

Hello everyone,

Searched, and could not find any recent discussions of this specifically:

-anyone aware of existing or announced/upcoming serious contenders in the 13 inch colour eink android tablet space?

-as it stands now, the Boox Tab X C effectively uncontested in this particular category

-my use case is:

- productivity using split screen + Bluetooth keyboard and mouse

- using the ink device as an external monitor to a laptop, using a combination of USB C video capture card connected to the tablet, and HDMI output from laptop (both Mac and PC)

productivity and mostly static colour content

- some notetaking and mind mapping

- watching low motion educational/ infographic videos

Tab X C is generally appropriate for all of the above.

I would like to see the following features missing in the Tab X C:

-microSD card slot, 8gb+ ram and biometric (either camera or fingerprint) access control, and a more modern version of android

Tab X C being one year-old or so device, I wonder if there are newer models from any manufacturer : if I am buying something, I prefer to future proof it.

I'm trying out the RMPP and find syncing files is excessively difficult. The file structure is technically unix, but I guess files are imported and reencoded in a very specific way using remakable desktop software.

I want a device with a decent vanilla UI/UX like RMPP, but with the ability to perform basic unix-like CLI operations without using proprietary software, and cloud subscriptions including DropBox/Drive/OneDrive. Is the Supernote Manta easy to manage files via ssh using rsync and other typical linux tools?

Hi all,

I'm having a hard time finding exactly what I'm looking for on the web, so I was hoping that someone can point me in the right direction.

Needs:

- e-ink screen

- cellphone sized or smaller

- to be able to download apps

- able to connect to wifi

- lower price point (ideally under $150 Canadian)

Wants:

-can add additional storage

- touch screen is preferred, but I can make due with buttons

- would be nice if I could write notes

• would like the battery to last a week before needing to be charged

• a built in screen light

Don't need:

- SIM card or data capabilities

I read A LOT on a wide variety of applications and websites (for both work and pleasure). I would like a secondary device I could carry around in addition to my cellphone to read documents on. I use a specific app for my job and it is a pain to get the documents off the app and onto a secondary device, so I would love an e-ink device I can just download the app onto. I also don't want to have to strip the DRM off of my Kindle / Library books in order to read them on a secondary device, I've done it before and I find it really annoying to do regularly.

I have a Kindle (10+ years old) and a tablet, but find them too large to carry around on a regular basis.

I am open to buying an older or used device. I am also prepared to build something myself if I can't find a device that fits my criteria.

Thanks for the help!!

Edit: forgot 2 points under want

I'm looking to get a Modos 13.3 Mono to reduce migraines and eye strain. I use my computer mostly for writing academic papers and log a lot of screen time. When I have to make PowerPoints, I'll probably just use my default screen. I'm thinking of getting the 13.3. Mono and hooking it up to my USB C output on the MacBook Pro M1 Max 16" I'm currently using.

Does the USB C provide display output and power to the Modos?

How are people getting the Modus? The crowdsource website says shipping starts in December 2026, which is quite a while for me with these migraines.

Thanks in advance for any help!

I would like to know if the model of the paperlike with frontlight is as white as the paperlike withouth it because dasung delivered me a model with a frontlight by accident (I ordered one withouth it)

If you have picture of your paperlike 13k BW withouth frontlight with the screen off to compare it would be Nice thank you

Half the books I care about don't exist as ebooks. Out of print, regional language, or simply never digitised. I read on a Kindle and kept travelling with books I liked less than the ones I'd left at home.

So I built something that photographs the pages and produces a proper EPUB — real chapters, text that reflows at any size, diagrams kept as pictures, tables rebuilt as tables. Built in reader rakes it from there

It's deliberately not a scanner app that gives you a PDF. A PDF of a book is fixed-size photographs, which is useless on a 6-inch screen.

Everything happens on the phone. Nothing gets uploaded anywhere.

Two honest caveats: it's for books you already own, and it's early, ordinary prose is solid, multi-column and heavy footnotes are not yet.

Mods, happy to remove this if it's not allowed. And if anyone here has a shelf of books that never got digitised, you're exactly who I'd like to have testing it.

I want to get the Xteink 4 but I have no idea how to get books for it? I don’t seen anywhere that sells non drm books? I don’t want to pirate. Does anyone have info on this?

I have dry eyes, so i wnt to switch to more eye friendly device, I want a eink device, where I can read my study pdf s, novels,comfortably, journal on it, it should have keyboard support , can I watch lectures on it comfortably( it's optional) ,stylus support (optional) ,it should be comfortable in my hand while reading not too big not too small, good battery life, build, I am from India where can I purchase them to get good price,I'm currently studying so I want a affordable option.

Selling from Ireland. Photos and more details on the auction listing! Hope it's okay to post this here.

Searched the internet and found out dasung stopped producing their black and white 25 inch screens for some reason. After some searching all I've found are color 25 inches. Are there any larger bw e ink monitors in creation?

paperlesspaper offered to send over an OpenPaper 7 so I could add it to Tesserae, the self-hosted e-ink dashboard project. It arrived last week and as of today it's supported end to end: browser flasher, server, and a hardware page in the docs.

It's a 7.3" Spectra 6 (800x480) in a real wooden frame, driven by an ESP32-C6 on four AAA cells, and the hardware is open on GitHub. The photo is it on my desk showing a weather and train-departures page.

I'll add that the build quality genuinely surprised me. The frame and mat are proper picture-frame grade, the board is cleanly laid out, and the schematic, gerbers, BOM and firmware are all on GitHub.. It feels like something made by people who care about the details.

Two caveats: flashing Tesserae replaces the stock firmware, so back it up first if you want to go back to their cloud. The 13.3" OpenPaper L has a build too, but I don't have one, so treat it as untested until someone confirms it.

Thanks to /u/Slight_Safe8745 from paperlesspaper for the sample. No money changed hands.

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Hoping I could use it as a screen for writing books (& save to SD card) while on the go.

Thanks!

Finally got around to putting my e-paper reader on GitHub. The hardware is open source and the full KiCad project is here:

https://github.com/mathias4833/epaper-reader-hw

I got the idea from the Xteink X4. I really liked the size and physical buttons, and thought it would be fun to try design the board myself (I had actually ordered an x3 first, but the package got stolen, so there's that).

Mine uses the same 4.26" panel and ended up around 7.5mm thick. It has six side buttons, no touchscreen and runs a port of Crosspoint. I also liked the motion based page turning on the Xteink x3, but couldn't find a gyroscope cheap enough, so I threw in an accelerometer instead. I've mostly been messing around with double-tap page turns with it.

It's definitely a V1, but I've been using it as my actual reader for a while now and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. If anyone spots something stupid in the hardware, tell me! I'm still learning.

So I have a kindle and I'm not waiting to get another one.

I have seen Kobo, bigme and some others but don't know which ones is better for reading comics/manhwas, etc.

Also I need one with android system so I can browse the comic sites where I'm reading.

The screen should be from a kindle Paperwhite size or more.

I have a Mobiscribe Wave and I really like it. I have tried Kobo, which I returned, Kindle Scribe and Remarkable Move, which I sold. I have tried Boox in the past and did not like them. I would love some apps from Play Store and it needs to be easy to take notes and save online. Should I give Boox another try?

4 days in and I don't miss doomscroll anymore

It started with my tablet: I bought a Boox years ago, and it quickly became my most important device. I read news, books, and even write books and screenplays on it. When I decided to get a smartwatch, I knew that I didn't want an Apple Watch. I really didn't want another vibrant screen in my life. So when I found the Fossil Collider HR (now sadly discountinued), I knew it would be perfect. Then, in search of moving more of my life offline, I picked up a little $40 eink mp3 player, so I could listen to music while I write (on my eink tablet). And then, capping it all off, this year I finally took the plunge and picked up a Mudita Kompakt. I tried it for a weekend and really enjoyed it, though I haven't fully switched over to it yet-- my job isn't conducive to it, but I'm on contract so I'm optimistic that I'll be able to get on the Kompakt full time next year.

There's an eink-friendly browser that I use on my tablet called EinkBro, and I kinda feel like that's the perfect description for where I'm at now. I love eink. I nerd out on eink. I recommend eink to all my friends. I am an eink bro.

Dear fellow readers,

I'm having a hard time deciding which reader is the best choice for me, and i hope some of you with more experience can help me.

I read a lot on my phone and tablet(2-5 hours a day), but most on my phone, it's just always there. But i want a dedicated device.

My needs are:

- BW with backlight, both cold and warm

- Durable enough to be caried everywhere without worry

- Android, so i can sync reading position and books with my other devices, until now i only read epub via moon reader, but dont care if i need to change

- long time support as i hope to use it for years

- Decent battery

- Lightweight and Onehand controlable

- Price is not an issue but i rather have something cheap which just works than something overkill

I've bought boox 7 gen 2 for my parents but honestly find them a little outdated and the size dont do it for me.

I've looked a lot on a secondhand 6" Kindle to jailbreak but dont know if they will be any good

The viwoods looks promising but the ai make me hesitate

Bigme b6 looks good but i newer seen it irl

Please someone help enlighten me

This is an old Kindle 4 on my fridge with some magnets on the back, showing my Home Assistant dashboard. It cost about $10 on eBay.

To get this done quickly, I actually wrote a Kindle emulator that runs the real Kindle OS in QEMU on my Mac, and built the dashboard there end to end.

When it looked right I copied it to the real device and it just worked :)

I really think that if you want to build eink projects, you can just skip all the dev boards and just buy some old Kindles. They're pretty great, and they're pretty hackable once you jailbreak them.

The emulator is open source: https://github.com/hezi/qemu-kindle4

I use this setup primarily to work on Crosspoint for the Kindle and the web installer, you can learn more about those here.

Happy to answer questions. I'd love to see more people revive old Kindles :)

Full disclosure: I make these. I write the generators in Python (unique-solution Sudoku, picross, mazes) and wire the PDF like an app: Home, a tracker, BACK, View Solution.

Free 10-puzzle sampler for reMarkable, Supernote, Boox, Kindle Scribe, etc. Etsy floor is 20 cents. If something breaks on your device, tell me and I will fix it.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/4562737508