I'm looking to try an E-ink phone, but due to work requirements I need a device that has "work" profile along with "personal". I need the Microsoft suite of apps that has Authenticator, teams, and outlook.
The Palma Pro 2 seems to be a potential option?
So I just got my Palma, was joking with my husband that I could play RuneScape on it. I didn’t think it would work. He was able to beat a boss and it ran great lmaooo
I’ve mostly used e-ink for reading, so I’m curious about how useful people think it is in other situations.
I’ve seen larger displays being used for things like menus, signs and information boards, but I’m not sure where they actually offer a big enough advantage over regular screens.
For people who have experimented with different e-ink devices or displays, what use case has impressed you the most?
- Viwoods Ai Reader
- Remarkable Paper Pro
- Viwoods ai mini
- Kobo libra 2
- Boox palma 2 pro
- Kobo mini
No longer own:
- Kobo libra color
- boox note air 3c
Happy to answer questions about any of them!!
Finally bought a new Kindle after having used the Oasis for 7 years. Got a X3 as well. Currently also trying out the Remarkable Paper Pro Move. I don't know what to do with my old Oasis. I have too many ereaders right now, but I don't feel ready to part with it either.
So i was fascinated by xteink mini readers and thought i need one, but getting one in my country is difficult and it was too expensive for what it is.
So i bought a development board and eink screen and ported crossink and crosspoint and voila, my own mini reader.
Granted it is chonky but hey it works. Battery is shipped but yet to reach.
It doesn't beat my kindle or boox but hey, it is cool.
After extensive research I had decided to get a BOOX go 6 gen II with a stylus, but I am hesitant due to it running on Android 11. I am concerned that eventually the apps won't run well as it is an older version. So my next best bet was getting the Go7 gen II as it runs on a more updated Android version but the stylus apparently isn't as responsive on that one. I was considering getting a bigme but seems like despite the better specs, the OS isn't as polished and the battery peeformance is lower.
I would like a small device (6 or 7in)
Not phone ratio
Color e ink
Mild stylus use
I do not care much about sound
I want to read books on the kindle app, pdfs and looking into other apps.
I want to also use it for notes/some mild organization stuff like to do list, etc.
Any advice?
I have spent half a year to create this 13.3 inch E-Ink digital photo frame, but I don't know how to sell them.
- Easy changing frame design.
- 10000mAh battery, don’t need to worry the electricity.
I've been using the BOOX Note Air 5C (NA5) for almost three weeks now, and while I'm impressed, there are some device-specific things that prevent me from feeling comfortable keeping it. It's amazing at a fundamental level, though, so I absolutely do want something like it.
I'm looking for at least one (but preferably more) of the following in a new e-paper tablet:
And for technical requirements:
(Having invested heavily in stationery, I'm NOT interested in digital note taking.)
The BOOX color display, refresh rate, and RAM are sufficient for all of those bullet points, but the device fails in other ways I hadn't anticipated. In fact, on (e-)paper, it's the perfect device for me, but the NA5 suffers from three key issues:
I could probably put up with any one of those bullet points, but not all three.
Products I've already considered are ReMarkable (too low spec), BigMe (seems even jankier than BOOX), ViWood/iFlyTek (I'm sick of AI marketing), Kobo (specs, size), Kindle (specs, size, walled garden), and Supernote.
If I had to pick among alternatives, I would go for the Supernote Manta for its apparent quality and long service life, but aside from being too large and too slow, it seems focused on note-taking which I don't care about.
I feel like what I'm looking for doesn't actually exist, that this is too niche of a product segment, but I'm sure hoping I'm wrong. I'd happily pay more for a higher quality version of the NA5. Does anyone here have a suggestion? Or, alternatively, is this as good as I can hope for?
Hi everyone. I’m a PhD student who studies literature. My work flow involves a laptop and also my iPad which I sometimes use as an extended screen for my MacBook. I’ve been thinking of getting an eink device as a note taker. I think all my papers and stuff are best read on an iPad since it’s easy to annotate and send documents but sometimes I wish I had a device only for notes that I could pick and write on. I have a bunch of notebooks that are just lying around and I don’t even know which one has what.
I also take notes on my iPad while reading on the side. I make docs for my students too on it which is so convenient. I don’t know if going digital with my notes is a good idea. For some reason I fear I’ll lose them all.
I have tried the RMPP. My brother owns it. It’s huge and if I wanted to read only docs, I think I’d choose that one. A friend of mine gave me the Supernote to keep for a week. I liked it. Wasn’t a fan of the writing but the small form was pretty good. I think my biggest fear is privacy and having all my notes wiped out one day for no reason. lol. I know I’m being paranoid but I was wondering which one is better for me? I just want something for notes and nothing more and I know these two companies are good. I think the remarkable came out with the new one recently so I’ll pick that. If there’s anything else I’m not aware of, please educate me. Thank you, in advance.
I tested/recorded it with samsung pro video with shutter speed of 1/12000, i am seeing black bands, with both the anti flicker option ON and OFF and brightness was also maximized via the dropdown brightness slider.
I increased and decreased the brightness but the black bands were present continuously.
I'm selling a DASUNG Paperlike 253, A great opportunity for anyone who’s been looking for one in Mexico without having to import it.
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I'm looking for something to write stories, take notes, store them, organize them into folders (worldbuilding, characters, etc.), portable. I carry around a lot of paper notebooks and my notes are starting to get too messy.
I was thinking about the ReMarkable 2 (maybe used/ refurbished), but a few negative aspects mentioned in the reviews are holding me back.
Alternatively, I was considering the Onyx Boox Note, but I'm not convinced about that either, especially regarding spending that much money.
Any other recommendations? Maybe a regular tablet with an added keyboard would better? The only thing is, it feels like a waste to use it just for writing (for every other digital task, I prefer using my smartphone and PC).
Thanks.
I’d seen quite a few posts about the Picpak before getting one myself, and now that I’ve actually played around with it for a bit, I thought I’d share some first impressions.
Honestly, my first reaction was… this thing really reminds me of a Polaroid. Even the size feels pretty close.
If you think of it purely as a photo frame, it does feel a little small. But it has magnets on the back, so I’ve just been sticking it on my fridge like a regular Polaroid or fridge magnet. A lot of people have mentioned that the screen isn’t very sharp, but I actually like the graininess of the e-ink display. It gives the photos this slightly retro, printed look, and paired with the shape of the frame, it really scratches that Polaroid itch for me.
Photo choice matters a lot though. Photos without enough contrast can look a little washed out and blurrier on the screen. Close-ups and photos with decent contrast seem to work best. It also looks much better from a normal viewing distance than when you’re staring at it up close. From around a meter away, the grain sort of blends into the image and feels much more natural.
The app is pretty basic, but transferring photos has been smooth enough so far. The newer firmware supports Wi-Fi transfers and lets you select up to 50 photos at once, which is a huge improvement over the 9-photo limit I saw mentioned in some older posts.
Too early for me to say anything meaningful about battery life or long-term reliability yet.
But overall, my first impression is that I thought I was buying a tiny digital photo frame, and somehow I ended up liking it much more as a little eink Polaroid.
Now I’m kind of tempted to get another one so my cats can have matching frames.
Hey everyone. I'm a lawyer and I use Remarkable all the time to review documents for work, sign letters, take notes, etc. I came across this thread a couple of weeks ago because I was in court for trial, the judge ordered both sides to work something out, and the other side emailed me a draft of the document to review and to let him know if I have any changes. I thought--great job for my Remarkable but no such luck, and I ended up just reading and annotating it on my iPad instead (I bring a lot of gadgets to court).
In any event, it got me thinking since I code and make websites as a hobby that it would have been cool if there were a way that I could have just forwarded the email to my Remarkable but, as you know, it doesn't exist. I see that some people have tried to create something in the past, but nothing that looked secure or could also handle MS Word documents which I use a lot because I review a lot of draft documents, mark them up with changes, etc.
So I spent the last couple of weeks after work putting something together and would love if you would check it out and give me your comments and tell me what you think. Simply put, you create a custom email address that you can forward files to--PDFs, Word docs, Excel, PowerPoint, and, of course, ePub (although I'm not sure anyone actually uses ePub)--and it puts the files right on your Remarkable. I spent a lot of time giving it bells and whistles like auto converting MS Office files to PDF, choosing the folder the docs arrive in as opposed to just crowding the "my files" section, ensuring only "approved" senders can e-mail to avoid spam, and because of my background, making sure that everything is encrypted and private so that it's safe to use for real workflows, no one can read it in transit, copies are wiped the moment it is delivered to the Remarkable, etc. Also, through a lot of tweaking (and server upgrades) I was able to iron out the kinks and got it to the point where if the Remarkable is turned on and connected to wifi, that the file arrives as quickly as 15 seconds after the email sends which, personally, I thought was awesome since I'm super impatient. I also toyed with having it auto-OCR PDFs en route, but it was very server intensive and expensive so maybe in the next version.
Anyway, it's called sendtoremarkable.com (and I guess a clever name, or at least I thought it was clever, "by NeuralSoft Systems") and if you could give me some feedback that would be awesome! Although I very ambitiously put a "paid tier" to try to recoup some of the monthly server costs which are surprisingly expensive, feel free to sign up for the free one. I enabled it so that everyone automatically gets the "Professional" tier for the first 15 days which, given the server cost, is the tier with Microsoft Office capability and all the bells and whistles, but after that you can auto-revert to the free tier if you'd like. No credit card required, no strings attached, just a cool tool that if I can eventually get a few people to sign up and pay to cover the server costs I can keep it up and running.
Last thing, it goes without saying that I don't work for Remarkable, I'm not affiliated with Remarkable, my website isn't endorsed by Remarkable, etc. I'm just a techy-guy who knows how to code and thought I'd problem solve and see if I can make the Remarkable which I otherwise love even more useful. Thanks!
Tested on a 28.5" Spectra 6 panel. This is an experimental accelerated version of our WaveMorph refresh effect.
There are still trade-offs in color gamut(loss a lot) and panel-to-panel consistency, so this is for laboratory testing only and is not used in our production products.
And yes, the recent work from Modos / TICKEY definitely gave me some pressure — and inspiration. 😄
I still haven't found a good reason to use accelerated refresh for the main InkJoy Frame experience, though. For the main image, we still prefer to prioritize image quality.
We may eventually use it for interactive UX, such as Wi-Fi setup or other UI interactions, where responsiveness matters more than maximum image quality.
>The company had expected a transition from monochrome color e-paper displays to color displays used in e-readers and e-notes to continue this year.
>However, rapidly increasing memory prices have caused customers to postpone new product launches, while demand for models from previous generations has also dwindled due to higher prices, E Ink said.
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Hey everyone,
Six months ago I posted my free web tool for converting manga and comics for e-readers, and this sub gave me more useful feedback than anywhere else. Here's what changed since:
My own workflow is mangaconverter for the conversion, Calibre for library and transfer. The old cycle of convert, import, send, notice the margins are wrong, delete, reconvert is gone: you fix it before the file exists. The broken-file handling exists because people here sent me broken files.
Rather not upload files anywhere? It's open source and self-hostable with Docker: https://github.com/NilsLeo/kcc-cloud
Curious what your conversion step looks like these days and what's still missing. Half my roadmap came out of the last thread here.