@dredmorbius@toot.catEinkBro: Web browsing for E-Ink devices
I'd recently run across this via a Reddit post. A web browser designed specifically for e-ink devices. Features:
- Pagination rather than scroll-based navigation.
- Reader mode.
- Font bolding.
- Font size adjustments.
- PDF export (missing entirely from Fennec Fox, annoyingly hidden on Chromium).
Base seems to be Chromium/Blink. GNU GPL.
I'm still mostly browsing via Fennec (better privacy and ad controls), but for quick reading or generating printed/PDF copy, EinkBro is quite useful.
@dredmorbiusOh: and immersive full screen mode, so that there are no browser or Android decorations.
Installable via F-Droid.
@dredmorbiusAlso to clarify: EinkBro does, of course, have scrolling.
It's just that it's also got a pretty good pagninated mode for viewing documents, with sensible touch zones for using them.
(Better than the Onyx Navigation Ball controls by far.)
On E-Ink, since page paints are expensive, you're better off doing one big paint (a page advance) than a bazillion small ones (scrolling). It's faster, a lot less messy, drains battery slower, and leaves fewer artefacts on screen (E-Ink does not fully clear though the result is usually pretty tolerable, there's a full refresh every so often.)