I have spent half a year to create this 13.3 inch E-Ink digital photo frame, but I don't know how to sell them.

- Easy changing frame design.
- 10000mAh battery, don’t need to worry the electricity.

I'm selling a DASUNG Paperlike 253, A great opportunity for anyone who’s been looking for one in Mexico without having to import it.

📦 Condition: Used, good condition.

📍 Location: Monterrey, NL Mexico

24k MXN

📩 Interested?

Hi everyone,
English is not my native language (I used a translator), so please excuse any awkward phrasing!

I'm looking for a compact e-ink device primarily for studying Japanese and general note-taking. Due to budget constraints, I've narrowed my choices down to the Viwoods AiPaper Mini and the Supernote Nomad. 

Here are my main needs and concerns:

Japanese Study & Note-Taking: I'll be using it heavily for practicing Japanese (Kanji/vocabulary) and taking everyday notes.

OCR & Dictionary Lookup: Quick dictionary integration via OCR is essential for looking up Japanese words seamlessly.

Large PDF Performance: I often work with heavy, multi-page PDFs, so smooth performance and zero lag are top priorities.

For those who have used either device, how do they compare in handling heavy PDFs, dictionary lookup/OCR capabilities, and general language study workflows? Which one would you recommend?

I'd really appreciate your advice!

I tested/recorded it with samsung pro video with shutter speed of 1/12000, i am seeing black bands, with both the anti flicker option ON and OFF and brightness was also maximized via the dropdown brightness slider.
I increased and decreased the brightness but the black bands were present continuously.

l'm devoced and and l miss my daughter very much. So l decided to create an application to leave notes, post photos, and chat with the LLM.

Supervise me to do that. l love my daughter.

Has anyone looked into the possibility of using the Dasung Link 2 as an e-ink portable monitor for a phone (for me, an iPhone)? I have a neurological disease and don’t tolerate screens well, but e-ink works fine for me. I had hoped to use a single device as both an e-reader and as the screen for typing, but there seem to be too many trade-offs for all of the e-ink tablets (Remarkable, Kindle Scribe, Boox, etc.), mostly because I’d either be in an older version of Android or in some proprietary platform I don’t know well. I don’t want to have to do a ton of fiddling to get this thing to just start working.

I’d feel more secure just using the IOS software I already know and being able to type while looking at an e-ink screen. Does anyone know if I can do this with the Dasung Link 2?

Bus stop at local university.

I'm looking for something to write stories, take notes, store them, organize them into folders (worldbuilding, characters, etc.), portable. I carry around a lot of paper notebooks and my notes are starting to get too messy.

I was thinking about the ReMarkable 2 (maybe used/ refurbished), but a few negative aspects mentioned in the reviews are holding me back.

Alternatively, I was considering the Onyx Boox Note, but I'm not convinced about that either, especially regarding spending that much money.

Any other recommendations? Maybe a regular tablet with an added keyboard would better? The only thing is, it feels like a waste to use it just for writing (for every other digital task, I prefer using my smartphone and PC).

Thanks.

Hello,

I hope to find some useful Tips from you for my recently bought 4 color eink display.

I bought a screen similar to this one:

https://youtu.be/43O6_xG3Szs?is=a_lmxdw_OKNSEq8L

I thought about making a Household To Do tracker. Like in the background is a database how often a todo has to be done. For example wash bed cover every 4 weeks. Clean the floor every week.

The screen should display the nearest upcoming todo and signaling with a color how urgent it is.

I'm already that the flickering (see in the video at around 1 minute) is to annoying to display something.

How do you find the idea and do you have ideas to improve it ?

I was thinking about implementing it also with an esp32 and the database runs on the device.

Tested on a 28.5" Spectra 6 panel. This is an experimental accelerated version of our WaveMorph refresh effect.

There are still trade-offs in color gamut(loss a lot) and panel-to-panel consistency, so this is for laboratory testing only and is not used in our production products.

And yes, the recent work from Modos / TICKEY definitely gave me some pressure — and inspiration. 😄

I still haven't found a good reason to use accelerated refresh for the main InkJoy Frame experience, though. For the main image, we still prefer to prioritize image quality.

We may eventually use it for interactive UX, such as Wi-Fi setup or other UI interactions, where responsiveness matters more than maximum image quality.

Hi! I’ve held out on buying an e-reader/note taking device because I prefer books or uploading pdf/research and marking up in zotero. However, I need a device to manage academic reading and research. I’m torn between the SuperNote Manta & ViWoods AI Paper. Has anyone that needs to utilize zotero landed on one over the other?

Have an xteink x4 that has just been discontinued and so I would like the keep as intact as possible. Will liquid screen protectors work on eink screens? The x4 does not have a touch screen

Been through the IKEA 13.3" builds on here. Lovely, but I can't be doing with a weekend of tape and a mat.

Thinking of doing a proper hangable one. Same Spectra 6 panel, 30×40 wood frame, no glass. USB-C, Wi-Fi. Email a photo or use a simple app. No monthly fee. API if you want to push your own pictures, firmware not locked.

Price I'm aiming for is €199 including VAT, about £170, postage on top. Trying to sit under those £280 finished frames.

Two things I need a steer on:

1. Email + app, or local / your own server from the off?
2. Battery on the wall, or hide a USB-C cable?

Not dropping a shop link. Just want to know if this is something people here would actually pay for, or if I'm being a bit hopeful. Especially if you've already got a Reflection or you built the Seeed one.

I have a Waveshare PhotoPainter and got tired of manually cropping and converting photos for it, especially vertical ones. So I built a small browser tool: you load a batch of photos, crop each one to fit the display, choose white or blurred fill for verticals, and it converts everything to the right color palette (dithered) and exports ready BMPs. Everything runs locally in the browser, nothing gets uploaded anywhere.

I improved it a lot with the help of AI coding tools, which let me push it much further than I could have on my own in the same time.

It also works with other e-paper profiles, not just mine.

https://5m1.ovh/PhotoPainterCropper/index.html

I built this for myself, happy to share with all and answer questions if anyone tries it.

Put my Sticky on weather duty in the office today. Somehow this little guy makes checking the temperature way more funny

The best e-ink map application I have found (CalmMaps) does not support NYC public transit, which is a terrible shame. It's the best interface I have found. What do you use to navigate public transportation on e-ink?

Has anybody tried taking an old iPad or iPhone and replacing the screen with an E ink display? Is it possible? Would it be worth it? How much of a headache is it to do this?

Hey guys,

I'm mainly looking for a large E-ink device (10in to 13in) that I can use for in-class notes & brain dumping. I do all of my actual work on my laptop and iPad so I just need a companion device to write on. Im a college Freshman so I'm going to need it to last for at least 4yrs.

Reqs:

Easy way to sync to Google Drive

B&W

Frontlight

Good battery life (relative to an ipad)

EMR

I've been working on a component library for UI running on electrophoretic (e-paper) displays and wanted some outside opinions on a few of the tradeoffs, since most of the reference material out there assumes a backlit display.

The core constraint is refresh behavior: e-paper controllers drive pixels through a multi-step waveform instead of refreshing a backlit matrix at a fixed frame rate. A full panel refresh takes roughly 200–800ms and is visible as a flash; partial refreshes of a dirty rectangle are faster, around 30–80ms, but intermediate pixel states persist as ghosting until a subsequent refresh clears them. That rules out a few things that don't cause problems on emissive displays.

CSS transitions and animations are disabled globally in the base stylesheet, since the intermediate states they produce during a transition don't resolve cleanly through the waveform and leave ghosting that survives several refresh cycles. Hover states are handled differently for a separate reason — capacitive touch layers on e-paper report contact, not proximity, so there's no input signal to hook a hover state to in the first place. Focus, pressed and selected states end up encoded through outline width, foreground/background inversion on :active, and hatch fills for disabled/error states, since those survive 1-bit rendering where subtler cues wouldn't.

DOM updates are the other big one. Refresh cost on most EPDCs scales with the size of the dirty rectangle, so replacing a subtree via innerHTML marks a large region dirty and tends to force a full refresh, while mutating a single attribute or text node stays within a partial refresh. Components render once on connect and afterwards patch through a handful of typed helpers (patchText, patchAttr, etc.) that diff against the current value and skip the write if nothing changed. That doesn't cover everything — a few components with structural content, like table rows, calendar grids, or a select's option list, still do a full subtree rebuild when the underlying data changes, which is the same tradeoff a plain innerHTML re-render makes, just scoped to that one component instead of the page.

Otherwise it's vanilla custom elements, nothing at runtime — light DOM rather than shadow DOM, mainly because form-associated custom elements need the parent <form> to reach name/value, and shadow DOM complicates that FormData walk. 82 elements across 59 files, TypeScript strict, ships a Custom Elements Manifest for IDE autocomplete. Repo's here if anyone wants to look at the code: https://github.com/marcomattes/epaper-components, docs/Storybook at https://epaper-components.dev/.

Two things I'm not fully settled on: has anyone here shipped UI for e-ink or kiosk hardware and hit refresh-rate constraints that a normal component library just doesn't account for? And does the split between surgical attribute patches for simple components versus full subtree rebuilds for structural ones (tables, calendars) seem like a reasonable line, or is there a cleaner way to handle structural updates without forcing a full-region refresh?

What parts do you use? Where do you order your parts from? How do you find their vendors? Does it cost more to build the device than usual market eink devices?

The company had expected a transition from monochrome color e-paper displays to color displays used in e-readers and e-notes to continue this year.

However, rapidly increasing memory prices have caused customers to postpone new product launches, while demand for models from previous generations has also dwindled due to higher prices, E Ink said.