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> Tho the post sounds like an ad. 

i thought the e-ink technology was interesting back when the first kindle came out but i knew what amazon was gonna behave like so i avoided it until recently which was a big mistake. since i started using a very old (i think 14 years old) used kobo device, i am loving this and i wish i would have found this sooner. it's an ad for the usefulness of the technology, not for any particular product or manufacturer.

if you try to use a regular computer in the sunlight you will have to crank up the brightness so much that the device gets hot and drains the battery quickly and probably get hot just from being in the sun. i never knew how much this mattered because that means computers and devices generally draw people into the darkness but as i have read (on the little e-ink recently) the sun is very healthy and now i regularly lay in the sun in underwear with a little e-ink and i read. sunlight is needed for the human body and i have found books help me with reducing doom scrolling. so this little technology has made my life better.

> Are there alternatives?

there are all the dedicated little devices, most of which are too enshittified for me to bear. on aliexpress you can find one other dedicated e-ink screen that can also do 60 fps, i think it is cheaper but i don't know how good it is, i was only able to find one short video about someone using it.