I've seen (in kobo documentation) statements that e-ink displays are good for up to about a million refreshes overall. At 75Hz that means a display might last about 4 hours total. Other displays claim up to 10 million, so that would be about a week's worth of regular work.

Is there anything mitigating that issue?

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fdsfdsfdsaasd 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

Unless you are switching every pixel with every refresh, the panel will last longer than that. However, it's still a huge limitation on its lifetime.

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graypegg 5 days ago | parent [-]

That could still get annoying though, since maybe the middle third of the display is going to get rapidly flipped on + off as you scroll through text/browse around websites. If that part of the display dies, but the outside 2 thirds still works, I think the panel is basically useless anyway.

	▲	ms-menardi 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		think in terms of "page-up" and "page-down" instead of scroll-wheel / thumb scrolling and it starts to feel alright.

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gcanyon 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I emailed Modos and they replied basically that the 1 million or 10 million refresh limits have been pessimistic in their testing — that they have not seen a display significantly “wear out”

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notfed 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Hmm, has Modos published "max number of refreshes" for their newest display?