Hi, I and many others share your desire to work outside and not feel fatigued after working with a digital device.

Making a quality transflective screen suitable for laptops and having good viewing angles is a complex manufacturing process; companies are working on it. I hope in the future this becomes viable.

At EI2030, we are working on making an open-source and open-hardware e-ink laptop and tackling the challenges. Our first pre-prototype Archer is almost complete, and we are going to start working on our second prototype.

Github to Archer: https://github.com/EI2030/Archer

Talk at foss-north 2021, "Building an Open-Source Eink Laptop." https://foss-north.se/2021/speakers-and-talks.html#asoto

Zulip community dedicated to the project https://ei2030.zulipchat.com/