#where did you read that

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proven mango
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I was probably reading more into the warnings than was actually being said. Here 'https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-eink-display-breakouts/usage-expectations' it discusses the need to not update the display more than every 3 minutes (180 seconds) to avoid damaging the display and here 'https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-eink-display-breakouts/python-code' it talks about it not being a console however on re-reading I see this is for Linux based systems only.
So I stand corrected, it does say that in Circuit Python it will be a console but that you need to be careful how you use it or you risk damaging the display.

low holly
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I believe that displayio has a refresh rate limit, that's why you only saw the REPL after some delay

proven mango
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Yes seems about 1 minute.

low holly
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it doesn't refresh with every character typed

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it's still useful to see the error messages, but your solution -- releasing the display at the end of the program -- solves that, because if you get an exception, you never get to the point where you release the display