Minimal News_

I'm sad all eInk monitor makers want to ship high refresh rates and other parameters to compete with classic displays, making them this expensive. I would rather buy a cheap 1 Hz monochrome eInk display (at least FullHD size and HDMI/DP-attached though) just to display text documents than a ridiculously expensive eInk to watch action videos on it (what a ridiculous aim, right tool for the job anybody?)

This is way too expensive. I’ll stick to my Kindle and eink phone for now.

I recorded a video of me reading Hacker News on my eink android phone and Kindle here. It actually works great.

https://youtu.be/onvSjhubvQ8

Apps used are EinkBro browser and Ktool. The browser is an android apk and lets you “page turn” websites with volume buttons. Ktool converts hacker news discussions to well formatted epubs for kindle.

> one of them exists now

My first thought was ‘this already existed, I could have bought virtually the same product already.’ …Which the article acknowledges even. Odd title.

I really wish that e-ink could be unshackled. I really love e-ink, I ordered Dasung’s latest portable monitor because I read on my computer a lot (which I’d love to you for work, but for a myriad of reasons I can’t… at least I can use it personally). My smart[ish] watch has an e-ink display. I’d love to see more products and more competition in the space, but sadly that doesn’t seem like it’ll happen.

Relevant previous discussion (same topic, different news outlet):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43848381

I'm currently trying and failing to find a supplier for this in the UK. Any suggestions?

Counterargument at https://www.reddit.com/r/Onyx_Boox/comments/19czc16/a_genera...

For the curious, I'm thinking that emacs on this in the garden sun will work well, and there's a vesa mount to strap a mini-pc to.

edit: got a holding message from their Europe store, we're in "the May Day holiday from May 1 to May 5", which presumably means nothing much happens until that ends.

was looking at this the other day.

the issue is that they are optimizing for a stationary desktop.

what we actually want is a portable secondary monitor that I can use vscode in the sunshine. I would sacrifice Hz rate for that.

unsure if that boox one is the ticket

I don't want/need color. I need a cheap 20" Eink computer screen.

How are they so expensive!! Could be great for coding and I wonder if they are better for your eyes.

But no way am I spending that.

> For US buyers... it doesn't seem like Onyx Boox is including [tariffs] in the listed price of the device

Oh dear, I suspect Andrew Cunningham will be making Trump's little black book.

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43848381

*Up to $4,275 in the United States depending on who eats the tariff -- you or the US company who imports the monitor.

For bulk imports, the wholesale price is lower, so you may only have to pay up to 2.25x wholesale.