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ks2048 38 minutes ago [-]
Good job, but I’m left wanting to know how to build a printer.
cat-whisperer 28 minutes ago [-]
I'd say it's an eco-friendly printer
greazy 32 minutes ago [-]
I don't understand the purpose. What am I missing?
The author "prints" to the eink display. Why not load say the pdf directly?
stdatomic 24 minutes ago [-]
From the 4th line in the article:
> But getting stuff onto it was tedious. I had to join its hotspot and open a little upload website in my browser. Yuck.
Anyway, very creative, I like the idea a lot.
cat-whisperer 29 minutes ago [-]
> I was thinking of this, but rendering PDF takes a lot out of a 400KB RAM'd device. It also needs a ton of things to actually work which the ROM can't hold.
> Kindles have a ton of RAM, this one didn't.
jarboot 2 hours ago [-]
This is amazing!!! It just makes sense. And its just how you would want to use a e reader.
cat-whisperer 2 hours ago [-]
if it looks like a paper, it should act like a paper
nomel 1 hours ago [-]
You can even fold it, once!
cat-whisperer 51 minutes ago [-]
It's also not effective against rock
valleyer 49 minutes ago [-]
Funny. But... paper covers rock.
sudo_cowsay 18 minutes ago [-]
Jan Ken Po!
NDlurker 24 minutes ago [-]
Very cool. I'll be updating to this fork
cat-whisperer 16 minutes ago [-]
Thanks. It's rough around the edges, so PRs are open, and there's a recipe in the repo if you want to build your own apps.
joshmarinacci 44 minutes ago [-]
I love the concept, but I wonder why he wasn’t printing to PDF. Can this device not render PDFs?
cat-whisperer 38 minutes ago [-]
I was thinking of this, but rendering PDF takes a lot out of a 400KB RAM'd device. It also needs a ton of things to actually work which the ROM can't hold.
Kindles have a ton of RAM, this one didn't.
bluGill 38 minutes ago [-]
Probably not. It doesn't appear to have enough ram. I'm not sure the CPU is up to that either.
sho_hn 1 hours ago [-]
This is a fantastic idea!
andyfilms1 2 hours ago [-]
We finally have PADDs from Star Trek!
cat-whisperer 2 hours ago [-]
Wow!! I didn't think of that.
stavros 1 hours ago [-]
I've been seeing the Xteink a lot lately. Should I get an X3 or an X4? I don't really know why I want it, but I have an eInk addiction, so I just need it.
hamaluik 2 minutes ago [-]
I bought an x4 a month or so ago, zero regrets. It sounds hyperbolic but it’s finally been the thing to actually decouple me from my phone. Whenever I’m out and about, bored, I just slide it out and pick up where I left off reading last. It’s a nicer reading experience on my kobo but the portability and.. frankly charm just can’t be beat.
a2dam 1 hours ago [-]
I've owned all of them and the answer is the X4 Pro IMO. It has a backlight, which is the only thing I really missed on the others.
cat-whisperer 1 hours ago [-]
It's funny that X3 is a successor of X4. Only downside is that X4 has a USB-C port and X3 doesn't
stavros 57 minutes ago [-]
What about the back light? Are they otherwise identical?
cat-whisperer 45 minutes ago [-]
X3 isn't backlit, but the battery lasts 7 days. So, it's pretty good for me
The author "prints" to the eink display. Why not load say the pdf directly?
> But getting stuff onto it was tedious. I had to join its hotspot and open a little upload website in my browser. Yuck.
Anyway, very creative, I like the idea a lot.
> Kindles have a ton of RAM, this one didn't.
Kindles have a ton of RAM, this one didn't.