Kindle Side Card
Turn an old Kindle into a local e-ink side display
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Turn an old Kindle into a local e-ink side display
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Open-source local-first dashboard for jailbroken Kindles. A Python daemon renders a Kindle-native PNG; KUAL pulls it over Wi-Fi and paints it with eips. Built for slow, glanceable status, not another browser tab.
Concrete workflow: put an old Kindle next to your main monitor and use it as the “what should I look at next?” screen.
For me the useful version is not a pretty dashboard. It is a quiet status card for today’s focus item, the next calendar block, waiting PRs, unread message count, local build status, and AI agent/token status.
That is the whole point: visible enough to keep you oriented, too slow and weak to become another distraction.
If you have a jailbreakable Kindle in a drawer, try the GitHub repo and star/watch it if you want more Kindle models and widgets supported: https://github.com/perduewu-ops/...
The strongest signal so far is not Product Hunt yet, it is Reddit: the r/eink post hit about 8.8K views and the first real question was basically, "can I use my old Kindles instead of paying for TRMNL?"
That is exactly the wedge. Kindle Side Card is still experimental, but the architecture is deliberately boring: host renders a PNG, Kindle fetches it over local Wi-Fi, KUAL/eips paints it.
Slow, local, useful.