I’m in the market for a repairable FOSS e-ink tablet, as my pocketbook’s touchscreen has died, and it’s a glued together piece of trash. The manufacturer charges 2/3 of the price of a new one for the repair.
Got products or manufacturers?
I’ll second that I’ve been quite happy with my supernote, but it doesn’t exactly match the criteria. I also haven’t had to repair any part of it, so I have no experience what the process is like, they are a smaller company and might have parts sourcing issues
remarkable is built on linux and lets you ssh into it and do shit… and there’s some open source alternative gui stuff, but it’s not completely foss as far as i know… and mine stopped working with the pen and there’s no way to really repair it… but it’s something.
also when the pen does work, it works really nice.
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oh, also they’re norwegianYeah, the only truly open source option out there is the PineNote, which is very much non-European. In terms of repairability I expect it would score (relatively) highly though, being designed to be tinkerer-friendly.
If you have a 3d printer to make a case, seed studio released a 7" color e-ink terminal with a built in esp32. Even friendlier is the Pimoroni Inky frame with a built in raspberry pi.
Both around $100 USD.
If I see it correctly, they both don’t have any touch or stylus capabilities or did i miss something?
You’re correct. I have one and use it as a weather display but it’s not comparable to a tablet.
I also have one, and the display refresh isn’t exactly quick. It’s probably very normal for colour e-ink displays, but it’s the first I’ve had / experienced. Though it’s fine for a home status display, it would be horrible as a custom e-reader.
Looking for the same thing. I have one I love right now, but it will die and I will never buy a non self repairable ereader again.
https://www.crowdsupply.com/diptyx/diptyx-e-reader
This is the best one I could find, but I think the dual screen design choice is plain wrong. I also like my screens a bit bigger and higher resolution, but on those issues I could be nudged. Not the dual screen design though. Although having options like these will pave the road for our next options :). Good luck with the diptyx, Martijn, (and you on your search for your next ereader)
I’ve been happy with my Supernote. It’s built to be serviceable, and the battery especially is easy to access and replace. They hope to get Linux working on it at some point, too.
