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greazy 44 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?

cat-whisperer 41 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

> 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.

stdatomic 36 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

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.