This isn't perfectly within your search criteria, but you may still find it interesting. Just today I researched the available solutions for driving a ED097OC1 (compatible) display, which was built into the Kindle DX, has a diagonale of 9,7" and can be obtained for about 30€ [0].

There are some projects dedicated to driving the screen with an ESP32, which already has WiFi built in, has good low power modes and is pretty cheap as well [1] [2].

There's also a project driving e-ink displays with an stm32 [3] and one to do it with an FPGA [4].

Beyond 13" things get really expensive and hard to find - best I can do is 12,48" for 150€ [5].

[0]: https://aliexpress.com/item/32983492389.html

[1]: https://github.com/dqydj/PaperBack_EPaper_Display

[2]: https://hackaday.io/project/168193-976-e-paper-controller-ki...

[3]: https://hackaday.io/project/11537-nekocal-an-e-ink-calendar

[4]: https://github.com/vd-rd/project_rorschach

[5]: https://aliexpress.com/i/32929629021.html

So that's the current state of available stuff - The ESP32 stuff is quite interesting because it's all you need for an IoT module and in the right version it even has enough RAM for full screen updates.

I don't know specifics about the voltage conversion yet (these screens need about -20V - 20V), but I reckon that if you're really frugal you could make a battery powered wall display for under 60€ with this stuff - and that's part 1 of what I'm thinking of doing.

Part 2 would be to stick in a Pine64 SOPINE System On a Module [6], put on a capacitive touch layer [7] and run a mainline Linux with KOReader and maybe even a Wayland compositor to be able to run any Linux app (the high contrast GTK theme seems perfect for this application).

All hopefully for under 200€, which is a lot less expensive than other e-readers if that size and a whole lot cooler.

Any tips?

[6]: https://store.pine64.org/?product=sopine-a64

[7]: https://aliexpress.com/item/32984143128.html

[8]: https://github.com/koreader/koreader