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by reginaldo 1511 days ago
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...