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Thank you very much for the video, I am in the UK so where can I get a kit to make it?

i would love this for myself! being able to program my ebook like my badger 2040 :D

Could it work with a color e ink display??!

What is the headphone jack used for?

LIKE I love the idea. Because I hate how Amazon put the idea of e-ink display in a jail!!!! Forcing everybody who wants to read books to chain themselves to this evil Corp :(

Screen too small, buttons look awful, no EPUB?? I'll stick with a hacked kobo

Not many people have the skill in electronics nor programming

I'd like to try applying this to a Watchy - anybody tried that?

i feel like in 1000 years one of these boards is gonna be the rosetta stone

This gadget is of little use if it cannot read pdf and djvu formats

Where to buy the parts???

I'd love to see epub, it's an open powerful well supported format. It allows all the things an analog book does

e-junk. I've wanted an A4 sized e-ink display for years, yet it seems this reasonable size has been suppressed by the powers that be

The concept is an 11/10. I just wish it was bigger. I use an old rooted Nook for reading right now and even that could be like half an inch bigger (so I can read comic books and manga :))

Is there a way to reuse old books or kindle? Like crack them and use them as open source?

good luck. watch out for amazon, among others, of whom dont particularly appreciate the idea of potential competitors that may pose a threat to their market control. also, you should really make a way to either convert from pdf/epub or read pdf/epub, whether by partitioning pages into subsections or otherwise; many textual archives are primarily created/saved in such formats, so i feel it's important to consider for such a thing. also, when the technology comes around in the not so distant future, keep an eye out for higher resolution displays; this would make use of epubs and pdfs much easier on such a device (as opposed to being confined to the likes of a 400x300 resolution). anyways, cant wait to see where this goes! keep up the great work!

I never realized I needed this device as well!

I was all set to order the parts and build one, but the epaper is out of production and out of stock. Are there any other part numbers that are cross refrenced? GDEW042T2

"Hello, first of all, thank you for your efforts! I haven’t made a PCB board yet, it’s built with discrete components. esp32-s3-wroom-1 n16r8. Now why does my e-book stop at the ‘flashing language chip’ screen, the circuit has been checked and there is no problem. The TF card has also copied the ‘babel.bin’ file. The file system of the TF card is FAT32."​Thank you again!

Quiero uno. Soy pobre y el que tenía que me encontré tirado ya murió. Necesito uno

Trying to find the board

Lindo projeto, parabéns.

This is crazy good my dude just dope.

I love this projects. What would be great is a library of interface boards that would allow it to use salvaged displays from faulty Kindle or Kobo readers that have very little value when faulty or simply old.

this could teach the world to read, to program, to think... this is the future and gives me hope where once it seemed lost. Especially if you can change the powersource from a lithium battery to something more environmentally friendly

Only thing I’d change is to have a bigger screen for comics but I don’t have the skills for that

Is there a version that is smaller, and has no print on the PCB?

Is there a version that is smaller, and has no print on the PCB?

Lemme tell you about lib gen

Magnificent! Now if only I could read.

Very cool 😎

Wonderful. Any chance of ePub support and a backlight/sidelight?

I will be getting one for sure

amazing project!

If there's anything that I would replace the logic board of my amazon kindle with, I am sold!

I always wished to build this but with better format but the epaper display is always a problem and is expensive

Fantastic work! I'd love an A4 size ebook.

All it needs now is an internet connection and a program for typing new documents, and it will be the device 90% of clerical functions need.

Outrageously exciting.

Oh, this is _beautiful._ Assuming the capabilities of such devices improve in the future (people here are mentioning links and similar navigation features; and possibly Epub or PDF support [though I'm not sure the micro used would be capable of such things] or some sort of basic markup language at least), this is how I want technology to present itself. Open hardware, open software, assembly instructions built-in; designed to be made, repaired, and used by real human beings, respecting them all the way... it's just a beautiful artifact, even separate from its utility.

Really liked it. I don't know why it feels relaxing.

Hi, Could this be scaled up to be a 10" or 13" device? I'm a musician looking for an e-ink device for sheet music.

This is amazing !! I have been looking for a simple pocket e-reader that doesn't cost an arm and a leg. Then this pops up where you get to make it yourself and I can use my 3d printer as well I'm in !

I would personally really enjoy a bigger version in a CNC aluminium case but amazing ground work for sure.

To be fair, as far as I can tell, it seems that the biggest problems are with Amazon and their Kindle ecosystem. Pretty much every other ereader out there on the market allows you to put EPUB and other files on it directly without ever connecting it to the internet. This is an interesting project, though I'm a little wary of the fact that it seems that some of the parts have to be obtained from sources like AliExpress.

This is bloody awesome, excellent work!🥹

If I didn't already have an e-reader, I can write on this would have been a perfect option.

Great project! Thanks for sharing.

It's a cool idea but how exactly would that help authors? Sure, at least you can keep daddy Bezos from seeing how many pages of fifty shades of grey you've read but where are you getting the books from? If you need to pirate books in order to use this and you want to actually support the author than honestly just buy physical books instead. Still a cool project though.

Did you make use of the wifi capabilitys of the esp, to download books from public repositorys - via ftp or something?