Comment by 🐑 zeerooth
Honestly it's a bit hard to come up with wild ideas for an e-book since it's such a boring yet amazing invention - anything can become an e-book as long as you have an e-ink display hooked up to some device :D
2025-05-20 · 1 year ago
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🚀 clarahd · 2025-05-20 at 17:59:
I have a dozen old devices that could be WiFi clients or "ereaders" like using a j2me app to read textfiles on a tiny screen, but the experience pales beside the delight of seeing a static eink display illuminated by natural daylight. Have you tried entering your equipment list into chatGPT and asking for a recipe?
🌧️ candycanearter [✍️] · 2025-05-21 at 12:08:
what about using a reciept printer?
🚀 clarahd · 2025-05-21 at 12:55:
lol, that was almost a thing for me when I was broke and experimenting with Linux - the cheapest "printer" I could get was repurposing an old thermal imaging fax machine as a printer.
At the call center where I worked there was a Congolese businessman who had a seemingly encyclopedic knowledge of the bottomless pit of the sequence of motivations leading up to the Rwandan genocide. One day I managed to dazzle him by bringing in a roll of fax paper with a long historical recounting of the event.
🚀 tpt_ [OP] · 2025-05-27 at 20:43:
Good idea with ChatGPT, I just might do that!
🚀 tpt_ [OP] · 2025-05-27 at 20:45:
I'm actually in a process of acquiring a receipt printer, but that is reserved for other projects. :-D
🌧️ candycanearter [✍️] · 2025-05-31 at 14:52:
@tpt_ what kinda project can u do with a receipt printer?
🚀 tpt_ [OP] · 2025-06-04 at 20:26:
Well, I would say the "usual", daily news, weather, etc. More for practise really. I really like the output of https://wttr.in/ so maybe I will try to pretty print that first.
Original Post
e-book reader ideas — Hey all, please share all your wacky ideas for using/reusing some hardware to make an e-book reader. I have some hardware laying around, and I'm looking for some inspiration. :-D