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Here's their real website: http://www.dasung.com/english/

I cannot wait for the day when large e-ink displays are cheap, or as cheap as normal screens, and have faster refresh rates.

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I just want an 8.5" x 11" version that is portable, runs Linux, and can open PDFs. For reading papers you wouldn't be able to beat it.

Sony makes one, https://www.sony.com/electronics/digital-paper-notepad for $700 but it's a product being sold to consumers, so tinkering with the underlying OS (reputed to be Linux, in the form of Android) isn't supported.

(There are a number of other 8.5"x11" eink PDF readers out there.)

The Digital Paper Notepad is a discontinued product. What other 8.5"x11" eink readers are there?

13.3", 2200x1650 pixels http://ereader-store.de/en/77-onyx-boox-max-carta.html

They are releasing the successor this month.

Apart from the "Runs Linux" you might be able to find a Kindle DX. And then you might be able to hack it to run Linux.

I bought one used in university and would use it for reading PDFs. Really slow refresh rate, but who cares if you're just reading big pages?

Ask HN: Cheap, hackable e-reader? | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13863046

E Ink announces a full color electrophoretic ePaper display | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11766073

https://GetRemarkable.com $480 pre-order | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13113819

I have the reMarkable on my watchlist, and I'm eager to see it in action and play a little bit with it before I commit to a purchase.

> I cannot wait for the day when large e-ink displays are cheap, or as cheap as normal screens, and have faster refresh rates.

I'd settle for cheap; I'd really like it as a second screen for mostly static documents, even if it can't have the refresh rate to be a primary display.

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