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by reginaldo 1514 days ago
The supernote A5X or A6X may be the device for you (they do come with kindle integration out of the box). I don´t have either device, I have Kindles, a reMarkable, and a Dasung Paperlike 13 inch e-ink monitor, which motivated me to reply. You wrote:

> It's probably a unicorn. Any Android device I'd probably get distracted too often and wind up frustrated with how poorly the distractions run on e-ink.

I came here to tell you that you're correct, and that this is actually a good thing. Many apps try to be all encompassing, so you don't realize you're distracted by them and waste time. Having a subpar experience gives you many chances to get your focus back to where you wanted it to be. I use my Paperwhite basically for writing and, when I'm writing, I'm writing, and that's it. Everything else looks bad, so I don't get distracted as easily and, when I do, I can quickly go back to what I wanted to do. I even set my display to black and white from time to time when I'm not home.

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Wisdom.

Wait, you use your Paperwhite for writing? How?

Sorry, I meant Paperlike.

Although, since you asked, I do use my Paperwhite for writing, but I never released the software I glued together for that purpose.

I have a raspberry Pi set up as an access point running a little python/flask app that's controlling a X server receiving input both from the Kindle and from the regular keyboard / mouse. The flask serves the screen image, a container html, and some basic javascript to handle input (e.g. taps become clicks, long taps become right clicks) and update the image from time to time. The only tricky thing involved is that Kindle's browser is very very old, so you can´t do anything fancy or modern. The whole thing is basically a slightly modernized implementation of [1]

[1] https://hackaday.com/2015/08/21/easy-to-read-bicycle-compute...