Yeah KNC, you're right, I have a tendency to get excited about such things fast =).
I bought the PW1 for the sole reason of prototyping an eink device. I found quite a few eink screens out there, (including apparently one that's capable of showing colors?) so the long term plan is to buy one of those screens, and hook it up directly to a system on board (SOB), and have an eink tablet capable for my developing/ sys admin needs (terminal and browser, with some occasional UI stuff), with music to make me happy. The only thing is, the first 10in eink screen (with a driver) I found was $300-$400. I'm sure there are cheaper ones, but still, this PW1 was cheap, if this project doesn't work, I'll just put it back together into its original form, and see what I can do with it as is.
P.S. The PW1 screen is 2.5mm thick because of the backlight, unless you're intentionally trying to bend the screen, it would be rather difficult to break the screen. Case in point: the 10in screen on my netbook is 3.5 mm thick, I took it out, dropped it a couple times accidentally while it had absolutely no bevel on it, and it didn't crack.