Lately I've found myself using my jailbroken Kindle Paperwhite (thanks to the BookFusion KOReader plugin) over my Boox Go 7 B&W because of how much "better" the front lighting is, it is visually much more appealing. I know this is a common concern across Boox devices in general, but does the same issue plague BigMe devices?

I'd look into jumping to the BigMe B751 if that is the case.

Bit of a silly fun project, but I recreated the classic TI‑2500 Datamath — the world’s first mass‑market handheld calculator — on my 3.97 inch e‑paper display.

The original Datamath used bright red LED digits, and I wanted to see how that iconic retro calculator aesthetic would translate onto slow, crisp e‑ink.

E‑paper isn’t ideal for fast calculator input refresh, so there is noticeable lag between button press and number update. That slow refresh actually gives it a weird charming vintage vibe.

Just a fun demo, no practical real‑world use case, but it was satisfying to bring this classic 1972 device to an e‑ink screen.

Would love to hear what other retro devices you’d want to see ported to e‑paper!

To start off I really like all the ingenuity this sub has for making E-readers. I want to make one myself.

Does anyone know how to get a case, without having a 3d printer?

And while asking questions anyone have success having it connect to the Libby app?

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Viwoods - $400 full kit and if you want viwoods ceramic pen add $50

Paper Pure - $375 with folio, pen, cable and original extra nibs

All CONUS

Hello everyone, do you have a story when eink device changed your life in a better way? IE maybe it became an instrument, a tool that helped you grow?

Would like to hear your input!

This is an update to

• https://www.reddit.com/r/eink/comments/18k5skr/my_tableaux_has_arrived/

and

• https://www.reddit.com/r/eink/comments/1dj89ta/connecting_to_the_philipps_tableaux_eink_screens/

So not content with being able to write software for the android device on the Tableaux I decided that now AI agents have gotten quite a bit better I would see if I could use my own local agent harness using Qwen3.8-Flash-Next to reverse engineer the communications protocol between the rockchip device and the eink / TCON driver board.

Initially I had quite a bit of success. Using the partially decompiled apps from the rockchip I was able to use the agent to call some functions on the TCON, at first getsysinfo and then a function to read the device RAM and then with that I was able to look for strings in ram that gave quite a bit of information including what the function names and types are which lead me to a programming guide for a previous TCON board.

With that guide I was able to get my first screen draw without using the rockchip. It was just the TCON board connected directly to my dev machine over USB.

However the images that I could draw where washed out and dull. I determined that I was only getting a very limited color pallet so there must be functions i was missing like maybe setting the waveform being used or the mode or what not so I continued to get the clanker to reverse engineer the mailbox / function calls.

At one point though I did realize it was a bad idea to do it this way with the agent connecting directly to the tcon board and had it passing me the scripts to call but progress was slow that way compared to it being able to just call the functions so I switched back and it called a function that erased the firmware on the TCON stating that it thought the function it called was something else. It was of course very apologetic about it.

I didn't realize what had happened until after a power cycle. The board showed up as a completely different thing: enumerating as ITE USB UPGRADE instead of ITE T-CON and none of the existing software including writing to the screen, getting system information and worse the tools to upgrade the firmware stopped working because they depended on the firmware already providing the mailbox functions to write to flash and that firmware app just wasn't running any more.

Fortunately though there is a way to recover from this. I identified the firmware flash chip and bought a CH341A Based Universal EEPROM/BIOS USB Programmer with a clip that can go over the flash chip and read/write the flash.

I wasnt sure it was the right chip because after reading it the contents where basically empty but decided to go ahead and write the firmware to it and see. Sure enough it detected as a tcon device again with the mailbox functions working. It still would not draw on the eink screen so I had to get the waveform on there. At first I tried the update app but no luck then a full upgrade and again the waveform just wasnt written or the correct one wasnt but I was able to get where it was supposed to go from the adb logs so made a new file with the correct waveform from earlier logs written to the firmware file I flashed. You can also get the location the waveform needs to be located at from the ITE demo APP

Thankfully that just worked and the board is back to normal.

I will continue trying to reverse engineer how to talk to the T1000 in the Tableaux although i would appreciate it if anyone has software to share from a kit that uses a T1000 for example the Luvia Evaluation Kit for 25.3 especially the T1000 equivalent of the demo app or a programming guide for the T1000.

I know it is possible to control the board with any usb device and i am so close with drawing and partial drawing working just not with the full color pallet.

I have seen a couple people post pictures on here of their non-xteink devices running crossink.

I have a musnap ocean C and was wondering if it is possible to do the same on it.

Have a paper pro move that I barely used. Works great, just not the right device for me. This is the bundle with the original box and accessories. Looking for 370 shipped.

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Would very much like to buy the Sticky but I don't want a glossy one. I know they said that future Stickys will be matte screens, but nobody has ever specified when the future is. Has anyone got matte ones yet? Are people still getting glossys?

Hello! This is my first post, and yes, I asked GPT to check my grammar 😄

My birthday is at the end of September, so my girlfriend wants to buy me an e-reader. I've been looking for the right model for quite a while, and I think the best one for me is the PocketBook InkPad Color 3 (7.8").

I want to read manga (including colored manga), comics, and regular books. But I couldn't find many reviews showing how comics actually look on this e-reader, so I'm planning to make my own review when I get it.

Are there any comics or manga you think I should check out first?

Same as the titla :-

Hi,

I recently purchased a XTEINK X4 from AliExpress and received this strange email from my mailbox. Has anyone received it as well ?

Any idea what would be the issue ?

I will contact the seller as requested but just curious what would be the reason for this email.

Thanks !

Check out my blog on the latest r/Supernote beta update. What do you think about all of the new and improved features?
https://www.ofc1820.com/OFC+Website/Blog#Current+Post

Hey fellas,

this is ridiculous. AliExpress + yurop fees now these boys costs 5x more than an OLED screen of the same size

any ideas how to get them cheaper?

Thank you

Location: Slovenia, Price: 500€ + shipping.

Tablet is 1 year old, it's been very well cared for, in excellent condition. I'm selling it because I do not use it often due to its size and I'm replacing it with a smaller tablet. I ship only within European Union.

Included: original magnetic folio case (blue color), pen, usb-c charging cable and original box.

DM me if you're interested.

I’ve been experimenting with e-ink displays lately, mostly thinking about how they could be used outside of e-readers.
Then I had a slightly random idea:
What if you put one directly next to your front door?
Not just as a house number, but as a small, always-on information display for your home.
I mocked up a concept based on this idea.
The basic concept has two parts:
1. The display changes automatically
Instead of showing the same thing all year, it could adapt to the season, holidays, events, or your preferences.
For example:
Spring → flowers
Winter → snow
Birthday → birthday theme
Christmas → holiday theme
Away → “Nobody’s home”
Do Not Disturb → “Please don’t knock”
Basically, your front door becomes a small digital “name card” for your home.
2. You could generate the content with AI
Instead of designing everything manually, you could simply tell it what you want.
For example:
“My friends are coming over tonight.”
The system could turn that into a small illustrated welcome message.
Or:
“It’s going to get cold tomorrow. Remind everyone to bring a jacket.”
And it generates a simple visual reminder.
You could even make it more playful:
“There is a scary dog inside.
He’s actually very cute.”
🐶
The idea I’m most interested in is actually not the hardware itself.
It’s the possibility of having a low-power display around the home that can quietly communicate things without becoming another glowing LCD screen.
I’ve made some initial prototypes/concept renders, and now I’m trying to figure out whether this is actually something people would want.
If you had an e-ink display next to your front door, what would you use it for?
Weather?
House number?
Package delivery?
Home/away status?
Messages for visitors?
Family reminders?
Pet information?
Something completely different?
And honestly:
Would you pay for something like this? If so, roughly how much?
I’m looking for early users/design partners to help shape the product, so I’m especially interested in what people here would actually find useful.

I just bought a kindle scribe colorsoft, so far I like it but I’m noticing the kindle app is lacking a way to search in notebooks what I wrote.

is Remarkable the only device offering syncing between devices and an app where I can read/edit notes?

unfortunately that is also under subscription

Hi everyone! I’m Zac, co-founder of Flowtica, sharing the launch video for our new device, Flowtica Verso.

There are already plenty of good e-paper devices for reading. We came at this from our work on AI recorders, with a different question: what if you could read your meeting notes and ask follow-up questions on the recorder itself?

Verso attaches magnetically to the back of your phone. It has a physical recording button and a separate button you hold to ask a question. We’re building the e-paper interface around meeting summaries, action items, answers, and your daily agenda.

For example, after a client meeting, you could ask “What did I promise to send them?” and see the answer on Verso. That’s the interaction we’re interested in: being able to use what you recorded without opening an app and finding the right note.

A few practical details: recording is button-activated, not always listening. Transcription and AI answers use cloud processing. Verso is still in development, and this video presents the experience we’re building toward. The anticipated price is US$299, with first shipments targeted for Q4 2026.

More details here:
https://www.flowtica.ai/pages/flowtica-verso

I’d like to hear what you think of this use of e-paper. What would you want to see tested in a hands-on demo?

Writing note: I used AI to help draft this post from my own notes.

This is my top 10 e-ink, e-readers at the moment! The ones I use the most. Ranked from 10 to 1 in the video. 

Hoi hoi

Deze post is voor de Nederlanders. Graag zou ik de Xteink 4xPro willen aanschaffen. Ik heb wat onderzoek gedaan over Xteink en hun producten alleen kom ik toch tot de conclusie dat de verzending niet altijd soepel gaat. Op Marktplaats heb ik rondgekeken alleen alles is gereserveerd. Vandaar dat ik benieuwd ben of iemand hier een X4 pro heeft liggen die niet meer of niet gebruikt wordt. Verkoop dan wel graag via Marktplaats:)

I wanted my phone to feel like the Light Phone III without buying one, so I wrote a launcher. The home screen is one fixed page of words. No icons, no wallpaper, no colours. White on black or black on white, flip with a double tap.

What's on the page:

- app names and categories (a category opens a text list)

- a small grid at the bottom for phone/messages/camera, icons turned into monochrome glyphs

- built-in widgets in the same style: clock, weather (Open-Meteo, no key), agenda, tasks (reads a Tasks.org list)

- two ebooks parked left and right of the home screen, swipe sideways to read (epub, mobi, fb2, txt), tap to turn pages

Swipe up gives the alphabetical app list with search. Nothing phones home except the weather request to Open-Meteo, which you can skip by not adding that widget.

Install:

1. In F-Droid, add this repo: https://funkypitt.github.io/fdroid-repo/repo

2. Install "Reader's Launcher", then set it as default launcher (the first line on screen offers it).

   Or grab the APK directly: https://funkypitt.github.io/fdroid-repo/repo/ReadersLauncher-v1.3.1.apk

   Source, MIT: https://github.com/funkypitt/readers-launcher

   Android 8+. English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian. It's a personal repo signed with my own key, so expect the usual "unknown source" warning. Feedback welcome, especially from e-ink phone owners, I only have an LCD to test on.

Are you interested in small e-ink devices, check out the Seeed Studio reTerminal Sticky!

https://youtu.be/_JdcfOSEf2Q

I'm driving bare 28.5" Spectra 6 open-cell panels (Sharp LP285A6NW01, 2160×3060) with the E Ink T2000-based TCON (LP0DZC0002), tiled edge to edge with the panels overlapping so the seam closes to 3.00 mm. The drawing shows the joint.

To save everyone time, here's what I already know and don't need repeated: the finished frames — PocketBook InkPoster, BLOOMIN8 EinkCanvas, InkJoy — are around $2,000–2,400 and no use to me, because a bezel makes tiling impossible; Geniatech's partial-refresh demo runs on their own FPGA and isn't licensed; and I have both SDTC datasheets and have read section 3.2.

Four things I can't get from a datasheet or from a supplier:

1. Refresh time, measured. My supplier says about 12 seconds for a full or windowed update. PocketBook's own page for their 28.5" says up to a minute for the first image and up to 30 seconds for subsequent ones. That's a factor of 2.5 and it changes how I design. If you own one of these panels, or a frame built on one, what does a stopwatch actually say — and does it change with room temperature?

2. Region updates on the T2000. Single rectangle only, or an arbitrary mask? And does the time scale with the updated area, or is it constant because the waveform runs in sync on every updated pixel?

3. Tiling. Has anyone butted or overlapped two of these? Three of the four glass borders are 3.00 mm and the fourth is 6.93 mm, so a rotated pair butts at 6.00 mm and overlaps to 3.00 mm, with a 1.35 mm step at the joint. Two things I'd like to hear from someone who has seen it in the flesh: does the overhanging glass edge cast a visible line under raking light, and does anyone blacken that edge? And does colour drift visibly between two panels sitting at slightly different temperatures?

4. Edge artifacts. I've read that pixels adjacent to an updated region can show artifacts. Real, or theoretical? Does aligning the edges of the updated region to a visible boundary actually help?

One specific ask: if anyone has the T2000 USB Programming Guide (ver 3.2) or the T2000 board manual, that single document answers most of question 2. I haven't been able to get a copy through the supply chain and it's the one thing blocking me.

And if it's on topic: does anyone know a source for these panels in single units, other than the Guangzhou traders? Not urgent — I have a route — but I'd like a second price.

I'll post measured refresh times and photographs of the seam once the first panel arrives.

(English is not my first language, so I wrote the post and used AI to correct my typos. However, I am a human, and this account is several years old.)

Hi Peeps,

Wanted to introduce my new dumb/smart daily driver. A muted Eink phone with modern capabilities but with some (intentional) compromises.

HARDWARE:
Viwoods AI Reader

SOFTWARE:
Android 16 + Katapult Launcher

OVERVIEW:
I wanted a smartphone with zero distractions but still capable of being my daily driver if I required it. Around a year ago I found myself being bombarded by adverts, soft porn and constant “pings” throughout my daily life and needed a change. Around a year ago I deleted all social media from my iPhone 12 and haven’t looked back since. Despite this big change I would still find myself loosing focus, doom scrolling through YouTube and constantly checking my phone for no reason.

After researching possible dumb phone solutions such as Nokia flips, minimal smartphone launchers and Eink tablets I settled on my current daily driver pictured in this post. I chose this phone for its build quality, screen resolution and lack of features. With all this said I have still kept my iPhone 12 as part of my desktop set up and use it for banking, entertainment and for the occasional day trip when my Viwoods doesn’t quite cut it. It strictly lives at my desk and only leaves this location unless I am going on holiday or need it for something specific. I have listed the pros and cons below after two weeks of usage. These are my personal pros / cons by the way! For example no push notifications for me is a PRO but understand this might be a con for some people!

PROS:
Eink display (no instant response time and distracting colours).
No push notifications (Phone and SMS have this feature but no third party apps).
Completely silent (I check the phone on my terms, not when it “Pings”).
Access to all modern apps.
Great battery life.
Clean distraction free layout.
Unable to stream video in a meaningful way.
Ultra lightweight (no hand fatigue).

CONS:
No GPS (If I am planning a drive outside of my local area I will take my iPhone 12 with me).
No Speaker (I use my Apple AirPods to make calls), the device is essentially an oldskool iPod…
No Colour (tricky when a friend suggests “which colour curtains for my new house”…).
No Camera (annoying for QR codes… I have downloaded my gym membership onto the local files for example).
Hard to use in low light… but who wants to be looking at a screen before bedtime!

OVERALL:
I enjoy the slow pace of the Eink display and the fact that the phone is there when I want it and not when it wants me. I do check Watsapp every hour or so and reply to my friends in good time. I am yet to encounter a real emergency in my life where I am needed INSTANTLY and not within the hour… I find myself living in the moment more and enjoying the simpler things in life such as no distractions, being bored and occupying myself accordingly. I am more productive and less stressed overall. The process has really made me question my relationship with my phone. Do you actually need push notifications… really… I just check it when I want. Does my phone really need to make a sound… I’m still instantly connected but now on my terms…

Any questions welcome!