Comment on The first folding e-reader is smaller than a paperback

bloup@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• BK85@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Why would you want that if you can have something light that can be held in one hand?

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  • shneancy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    for the vibes of course, not everything has to be optimised for practicality

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    • PostaL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Two Kindle, one duct tape

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      • shneancy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        but then i’d need to swipe to flip the page on both of them, that’s like, effort

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  • bloup@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I read a lot of technical material that has lots of diagrams and it’s difficult with an E reader paging back-and-forth between the text and the diagram that I’m trying to understand

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  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The hinge lasts longer than a foldy screen.

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    • espentan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Apparently a foldable OLED screen is, typically expected to last at least 200.000 folds. That’s more than a 100 folds/day for 5 years. I’d take my chances on one, I think.

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      • wfh@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Unless you go once near a beach and a single grain of sand gets past the airtight bag the phone was in and the Totally-IP67-We-Swear phone chassis and is fucking destroys the screen from the inside, with a repair bill worthy of a new phone because “that kind of damage is not under warranty”.

        Source : happened to one of my best friends. Fuxk you Samsung.

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      • criitz@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        5 years isn’t that long

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      • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Second question, if you’re going to read from one screen at a time, why have two screens?

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• dryfter@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  While that sounds cool to me, it kind of defeats my main purpose of switching to an e-reader in the first place. I have trouble holding physical books for a long time due to hand pain. I had a similar issue with the e-reader, just not as bad, until I put a PopSocket on the back of it. Now I can hold it with the PopSocket resting in-between 2 fingers and can read significantly longer.

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• JayGray91@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Adjacent to an e-reader, but Microsoft tried that. Typical Microsoft fashion, they fumbled it.

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  • oeightsix@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The Surface Duo really does make a great e-reader.

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• ProvableGecko@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You would think at least the Chinese brands would try it.

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