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By the time you buy an EInk display and a battery you might as well buy a full e reader. E ink programming isn't fun. If this is about the journey, go for it,

• lelanthran 3y ago
  > By the time you buy an EInk display and a battery you might as well buy a full e reader. That's the problem I ran into the last time I looked at this - it was cheaper to buy an e-reader at retail prices than just the display at retail prices[1]. I was only wondering if the prices have fallen yet (seems like they have not). There's a bunch of low-power applications with large displays that I could do with an e-ink display. [1] I don't really understand why the displays are as expensive as they are. It could just be that the e-readers are sold at a loss, and the manufacturer makes a profit some other way (with Amazon, they make their profit on the books, not sure about the others).