Kindle Side Card

Turns an old jailbroken Kindle into a local e-ink ambient status display

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Kindle Side Card is a free, open-source tool that turns an old jailbroken Kindle into a local e-ink ambient status display: a daemon on a computer renders a dashboard image, and a small extension on the Kindle pulls and displays it over Wi-Fi. It ships with widgets for system status, to-dos, calendar, AI usage limits, and more, over a local API. It's for developers who want a slow, glanceable, low-distraction physical status surface for AI agent work or homelab monitoring instead of another browser tab, and who have an unused jailbroken Kindle sitting around.

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