[lelanthran]

I lost my kindle (gen1, I think) recently (Someone in my neighbourhood now has the best curated collection of free fiction ever, so I'm not too sore about it).

I'll probably get a new one, but it occurred to me, with all the current excess electronics I have now on my desk (everything from PIC18Fs, esp32s to SBCs running Linux), the only thing I am missing to make my own e-reader is a large and cheap e-ink display.

Any recommendations for a large-ish e-ink display that doesn't cost an arm and a leg?

[999900000999]

By the time you buy an EInk display and a battery you might as well buy a full e reader.

E ink programming isn't fun. If this is about the journey, go for it, but the results won't be optimal

[lelanthran]

> By the time you buy an EInk display and a battery you might as well buy a full e reader.

That's the problem I ran into the last time I looked at this - it was cheaper to buy an e-reader at retail prices than just the display at retail prices[1].

I was only wondering if the prices have fallen yet (seems like they have not). There's a bunch of low-power applications with large displays that I could do with an e-ink display.

[1] I don't really understand why the displays are as expensive as they are. It could just be that the e-readers are sold at a loss, and the manufacturer makes a profit some other way (with Amazon, they make their profit on the books, not sure about the others).