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Re:The digital typewriter and the unnecessarily costly pursu... by cartesius13 on Friday July 15, 2022 @05:07PM (#32112820)
E-ink display though

>You could also do this easily on that $60 laptop or any chromebook

You couldn't because these devices don't have an e-ink screen. This would be the entire point of having a kindle as a writing device. Otherwise you would be correct

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Re:The digital typewriter and the unnecessarily costly pursu... by jfim on Friday July 15, 2022 @06:01PM (#32113255)
It's too bad that transflective displays didn't pan out, the OLPC display was perfectly workable and worked well outdoors too. It would be the ideal kind of display for such a device, which doesn't really need high resolution.
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