I've been buying (2 so far) Seeed Studio reTerminal e-ink screens, flashing them with ESPHome, then using Claude Code to write backends to render out whatever I want to put on the screens (a la TRMNL, I also have a TRMNL). Being able to "speak" into existence what I want is pretty freaking awesome.

Note: Yes, I know what I'm about to say could be done using TRMNL (as part of it)

I was able to set it up so that it rotates book quotes every day with a picture of the book cover next to the quote. That, on its own, is far from impressive. What made me giddy was that it shows book quotes that I've highlighted in KOReader on my jailbroken Kindle. KOReader syncs up to BookOrbit (open source ebook manager/reading tracking tool). The whole thing happens 100% local to my network.

BookOrbit is running in a docker, my little server to render the book/quote runs in a docker, my Kindle talks to BookOrbit, my ReTerminal talks to HomeAssistant (ESPHome). It's 100% local and it's silly but it's mine and I love it. As I'm reading I highlight something and a day, a week, a month later I see it on the display on my dresser or in my office.

I want to put these all over the place in my house and I already modified it once so each screen will get a different random quote so I don't have to worry about duplicates. I'm considering getting 1 display per book shelf where I have a full series and configuring it so that it just shows quotes I've highlighted from that series. The sky's the limit.

I fully understand no one cares, I get it, this is super-duper-custom, "just for me", and that's what I love.