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by nyolfen 584 days ago
Check out daylight: https://daylightcomputer.com/

they've only launched recently (mine arrives monday) but it uses a novel display tech which purports to be e-ink-like with 60fps. i'm very excited because the main usecase for ereaders that i've found totally unworkable for the last 15 years of trying is marking up the margins of a pdf while i read it; early readers were too small to read pdf's, current gen ones can be large and high-dpi enough but are still agonizingly slow to refresh. finally, finally i can just take notes in my docs. plus it runs android and you can hack it https://www.daylighthacker.wiki/

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But note that the daylight is not an e-ink device. It's just good old LCD.
it is a novel reflective lcd display they developed for their devices; i haven't seen it in person yet but it is an epaper solution like e-ink, though does not have some of the advantages e-ink does, like sustaining an image without power, and battery life generally seems to be on par with a typical tablet
This screen is 190dpi; Carta 1200/1300 and Kaleido 3 in black and white mode are 300.