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What size do you need? The wHAT is bigger and should work great with this. I don't have one so I haven't been able to verify. Will probably end up getting one at some point.

Currently considering seeing how far I can push the Inky towards a decent refresh rate. It is incredibly slow with color, but a nice device all the same.

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Well it would be for sheet music, so ideally it would be in the 6"+ range. The bigger the better. Really just depends on cost - I don't want to spend more than a couple hundred bucks (otherwise I would just buy the PadMu 2)

Could I get more info on the "wHAT"? I tried googling for it, but there are a ton of false positives (due to "wHAT" being the same word as "what").

Should be this, I think - https://thepihut.com/collections/raspberry-pi-screens/produc...

I can see that. Inky what would get you there.

This thing. Not cheap. Slow refresh. But pretty neat. https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/inky-what

That's way too low resolution for displaying sheet music.

Did you mean “to small size” or really “too low resolution”? That screen is around 100dpi, so I find it a bit odd you say it’s too low resolution.

"Resolution" is often used informally to mean "pixel count".

Again, the display is around 100 pixels/inch. Definitely not “retina” (which is such a marketing sham word anyway) level graphics (at the normal distance for sheet music), but still enough for my eyes to read individual notes easily (pixel density wise anyway, 4ish inch screen not withstanding).

Well the pixel density would be usable… if the screen were larger.

It is insufficient to display a page of sheet music.

Hence my “to small size” comment. ;)

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