Comment on DIY E-Reader Folds Open Like A Book (Diptyx)

• tired_n_bored@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨33⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ 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 ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Mind blown.

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