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tired_n_bored@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• SkavarSharraddas@gehirneimer.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I like the concept. I have a e-ink reader where I removed the hull because it's annoying, but at some point I must have damaged the display a bit and now it has a little black spot. With this the added bulk also doubles the area available for text. Maybe not that useful for novels that you read through linearly, but for non-fiction it would be nice to see other chapters, glossaries, etc. on one display while keeping the other at the page you were reading. Mainly a problem of software and enough buttons to be able to comfortably use that.

  Though the low-res displays of this prototype look atrocious to me (pixelation and uneven blackness), maybe a later version will improve on that.

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• winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  How else would it recreate a book unless it had a folding display which would be even worse?

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  • tired_n_bored@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Books are made like this because it’s impossible to make any other way, but a digital device can have just one “page” since you read one page at time like Kindles and Kobos

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    • bluGill@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The other option is a scroll. historicaly I'm told a book was always a scroll and the factor we now call a book was a codex. (I don't know how to verify this)

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    • nyan@lemmy.cafe ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      For some people, recreating the form factor of a book is the point, regardless of its convenience or cost. I’m sure whoever put this thing together was quite aware of how mainstream e-readers are built and didn’t want that, or they would have bought a Kindle or a Kobo.

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      • Zink@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I can imagine a future device with an e-ink page that’s so thin and flexible that it looks and feels like a paper book with magic changing text. I don’t know how many consumers would pay a premium for that, but I would definitely buy my wife one.

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  • Simulation6@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Go old school and have it recreate a scroll. Really, not having to shift your head/eyes when reading is a plus with r-readers.

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  • yggstyle@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nevermind the fact most readers and tablets come -with- a cover … So its almost like a book anyway. Which people fold behind the page. Like a book. What was that extra screen doing again?

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    • Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      a cover … Which people fold behind the page. Like a book.

      Ho ho hold the fuck up

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      • yggstyle@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Mind blown.

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