PiWrite – Kindle Paperwhite to Write
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#2"The TL;DR is a webserver running somewhere a keyboard can be plugged, and a page opened in the Kindle's web browser."
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#3I went down this rabbit hole two weeks ago, but settled on using a Lenovo ThinkSmart View instead: https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2023/09/22/1230
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#4Similar project for Pocketbook readers: https://github.com/borzunov/remoteink
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#5"The TL;DR is a webserver running somewhere a keyboard can be plugged, and a page opened in the Kindle's web browser."
I’m sure the input latency on that setup is just a joy to use
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#6Probably a stupid question, but does Kindle have any "native" app support? I'm surprised the it even has a browser. I wonder what are the limitations?
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#7I went down this rabbit hole two weeks ago, but settled on using a Lenovo ThinkSmart View instead: https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2023/09/22/1230
is it a standard lcd/led display that emits blue light versus the paper white safer one?
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#8Probably a stupid question, but does Kindle have any "native" app support? I'm surprised the it even has a browser. I wonder what are the limitations?
Nope, no app store, no way of installing apps (other than rooting a device).
If you want to do anything other than read, I'd definitely recommend something running Android underneath.
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#9Probably a stupid question, but does Kindle have any "native" app support? I'm surprised the it even has a browser. I wonder what are the limitations?
Kindle does not have any native app support. But it's a linux machine. If you can jailbreak it (which has become increasingly harder), then you can write/install custom apps on it.
For example, back in the day I had a epub reader app installed.
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#10I went down this rabbit hole two weeks ago, but settled on using a Lenovo ThinkSmart View instead: https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2023/09/22/1230
How does the ThinkSmart handle authentication?
I did a little experiment with Samsung Dex to see if the Android-only environment could work. So far - I found it way less distracting not having all my current tabs/finder windows open. I could definitely see it as a nice "writing appliance" that I could put in a quiet corner for the end of the day.