Hello,

I'm thinking about buying an e-ink reader. But since I will be carrying it around, I expect it to do little more than just reading ebooks. Even though almost all of the devices are linux they don't actually allows you to use the linux. Does anybody knows a reader that actually allows you to get a shell without hacking or voiding its warranty?

The e-ink displays aren't great for interactive applications, because the refresh rate is slow (ie, it takes about half a second to update the screen). A shell could possibly be made to work faster, with some modifications to the way it updates the screen, eg output that wraps around from bottom to top, instead of scrolling, so that the whole screen doesn't have to be rewritten.

The Jinke company allows you to download the SDK and Linux source code for their e-readers, so you can do anything you want, but in the default install there is no easy way to access a shell.

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Thanks that exactly what I wanted!