Their Kindle highlights now show up on e-ink screens around the house
Days or months after highlighting a line, it appears on the display on their dresser. Claude Code wrote the backends for the e-ink screens, showing a random quote with its book cover, 100% local.
Done withClaude CodeSpotted· by HN user joshstrange· Oct 15, 2026
Result Each screen now shows a different quote
“Being able to "speak" into existence what I want is pretty freaking awesome.”
Spotted: found in the wild. Details are as reported by the source above and have not been independently verified.
What they did
Bought 2 reTerminal e-ink screens, flashed them with ESPHome, and used Claude Code to write backends that render whatever they want. Highlights from KOReader on their Kindle sync to BookOrbit, an open-source ebook manager running in Docker, and a small server renders a random highlighted quote with the book cover for each screen.
How it went
It works, 100% locally. Days or months after highlighting something, they see it on the display on their dresser or in their office, and they’ve already changed it so each screen shows a different quote.
Try it yourself with Claude Code
Write a small server for my home network that picks a random quote from my e-book highlights in [export or app], fetches the book's cover, and renders an image sized for my [e-ink display, resolution and colours]. Serve a new one each day, never show the same quote on two screens, and give me the ESPHome config to display it.
A starting prompt written by Agents in the Wild. Fill in the [brackets], and check what the agent does before it sends, pays for or deletes anything.
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